Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries

Interpreting Kierkegaard in the general context of Golden Age Denmark, this interdisciplinary anthology features articles which treat his various relations to his most famous Danish contemporaries. It aims to see them not as minor figures laboring in Kierkegaard's shadow but rather as significant thinkers and artists in their own right. The articles illuminate both Kierkegaard's influence on his contemporaries and their varied influences on him. By means of the analyses of these various relations, aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship are brought into new and insightful perspectives. The featured essays treat some of the most important figures from the time, representing the fields of philosophy, theology, literature, criticism and art.

Auteur

The editor is Associate Research Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen.

Résumé

Since the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) was first published in 1997, it has served as the authoritative book series in the field. Starting from 2011 the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series will intensify the peer-review process with a new editorial and advisory board. KSMS is published on behalf of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen.

KSMS publishes outstanding monographs in all fields of Kierkegaard research. This includes Ph.D. dissertations, Habilitation theses, conference proceedings and single author works by senior scholars. The goal of KSMS is to advance Kierkegaard studies by encouraging top-level scholarship in the field. The editorial and advisory boards are deeply committed to creating a genuinely international forum for publication which integrates the many different traditions of Kierkegaard studies and brings them into a constructive and fruitful dialogue. To this end the series publishes monographs in English and German.

Potential authors should consult the Submission guidelines. 

All submissions will be blindly refereed by established scholars in the field. Only high-quality manuscripts will be accepted for publication. Potential authors should be prepared to make changes to their texts based on the comments received by the referees.

Contenu

I. Philosophy

Poul Lübcke/F.C. Sibbern, Epistemology as Ontology · Peter Thielst/Poul Martin Møller, Scattered Thoughts, Analysis of Affectation, Struggle with Nihilism · Johannes Witt-Hansen/H.C. Ørsted, Immanuel Kant and the Thought Experiment · K. Brian Söderquist, Kierkegaard's Contribution to the Danish Discussion of 'Irony' · Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard and Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark

II. Theology

John Saxbee, The Golden Age in an Earthen Vessel: The Life and Times of Bishop J.P. Mynster · Curtis L. Thompson, H.L. Martensen's Theological Anthropology · Niels Thulstrup, Martensen's Dogmatics and its Reception · Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen, Grundtvig and Romanticism

III. Literature

Kathryn Shailer-Hanson, Adam Oehlenschläger's Erik and Roller and Danish Romanticism · Niels Ingwersen, The Tragic Moment in Oehlenschläger's Hakon Earl the Mighty · John L. Greenway, Reason in Imagination is Beauty: Ørsted's Acoustics and H.C. Andersen's The Bell · Katalin Nun, Thomasine Gyllembourg's Two Ages and her Portrayal of Everyday Life

IV. Literary and Dramatic Criticism

Henning Fenger, Kierkegaard - A Literary Approach · George Pattison, Søren Kierkegaard: A Theatre Critic of the Heiberg School · Janne Risum, Towards Transparency: Søren Kierkegaard on Danish Actresses · Peter Vinten-Johansen, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and his Audience in Nineteenth-Century Denmark · Hans Hertel, P.L. Møller and Romanticism in Danish Literature

V. Art

Else Kai Sass, Thorvaldsen: An Introduction to his Work · Ragni Linnet, Golden Tears: Johan Thomas Lundbye and Søren Kierkegaard