A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tome I

The Heiberg Period: 1824-1836, 2nd Revised and Augmented Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-53481-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 698 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2456 g

Reihe: Danish Golden Age Studies

This is the first of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of Golden Age culture.

This initial tome covers the period from the beginning of the Hegel reception in the Danish Kingdom in the 1820s until the end of 1836. The dominant figure from this period is the poet and critic Johan Ludvig Heiberg, who attended Hegel’s lectures in Berlin in 1824 and then launched a campaign to popularize Hegel’s philosophy among his fellow countrymen. Using his journal Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post as a platform, Heiberg published numerous articles containing ideas that he had borrowed from Hegel. Several readers felt provoked by Heiberg’s Hegelianism and wrote critical responses to him, many of which appeared in Kjøbenhavnsposten, the rival of Heiberg’s journal. Through these debates Hegel’s philosophy became an important part of Danish cultural life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction: Hegel and Hegelianism

I Hegel’s Berlin Period: 1818–1831

II The Development of so-called Right and Left Hegelianism

III Danish Hegelianism

IV Thesis and Methodology of the Present Study

1 The Earliest Danish Encounters with Hegel’s Philosophy: Before 1824

I Baggesen’s Possible Encounter with Hegel in 1794

II Johan Erik von Berger’s Relation to Hegel from circa 1797

III Steffens’ Relation to Hegel from 1801

IV Oehlenschläger’s Encounter with Hegel in Jena in 1806

V Sibbern’s Journey to Prussia and the German States from 1811–1813

VI Hans Christian Ørsted’s Encounter with Hegel in 1812

VII Clausen’s Stay in Berlin: 1818–1819

VIII Peder Hjort’s Visit to Berlin in 1821

IX Krarup’s Visit to Berlin: 1821–1822

X Sibbern’s On Knowledge and Enquiry

XI Sibbern’s Elements of Logic

XII The Announcement about Hegel’s Student, Franz Mavros

XIII Rudelbach’s Visit to Berlin

2 Heiberg and the Howitz Controversy: 1824

I Heiberg’s Trip to Berlin and His Hegelian Conversion

II Howitz’s Article “On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility”

III Anders Sandøe Ørsted’s Response to Howitz

IV Mynster’s Response to Howitz

V Sibbern’s Response to Howitz

VI Howitz’s Response to His Critics: Determinism, or Hume against Kant

VII Heiberg’s Hegelian Response: On Human Freedom

VIII The Reception of Heiberg’s On Human Freedom

IX Heiberg’s Outline of a System of Aesthetics as a Speculative Science

X Heiberg’s Flight from Kiel

3 Heiberg’s Return to Copenhagen: 1825–1826

I Heiberg’s Contingency Regarded from the Point of View of Logic

II Sibbern’s Review of Heiberg’s Treatise on Contingency

III Poul Martin Møller’s “On the Development of Popular Ideas”

IV Mynster’s Article on the Law of Identity

V Heiberg’s Poem “Life and Death”

4 Heiberg’s Initial Attempts to Popularize Philosophy in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post: 1827

I Heiberg’s Article, “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”

II Heiberg’s “On Solger”

III Heiberg’s “A Letter Found on the Street”

IV Heiberg’s Nemesis Essay

V Zeuthen’s Visit to Berlin

VI Heiberg’s “On the Materialist and Idealist Principle in Language”

VII Heiberg’s Review of Lucubrations of a Prisoner of the State

VIII Heiberg’s “A Letter from Baggesen”

IX Heiberg’s “On Tegnér’s Frithiof”

5 Heiberg’s Attempt to Develop a Hegelian System of Aesthetics in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post: 1828

I Heiberg’s Taxonomy of Poetic Forms in His Polemic with Oehlenschläger

II Peder Hjort’s Response to Heiberg’s Criticism of Oehlenschläger

III Heiberg’s Taxonomy of Natural Beauty in “On Beauty in Nature”

IV Kjøbenhavnsposten’s Response to Heiberg’s Criticism of Jacob Baden

V Heiberg’s Development of Dramatic Character

VI Kjøbenhavnsposten’s “On Occasion of Flyvende post’s No. 42”

VII A Brief Article in Kjøbenhavnsposten, “Hegel’s Philosophy”

VIII Heiberg’s “Cousin’s Visits at Goethe’s”

IX Heiberg’s Account of the Bad Infinity in “A few Words about the Infinite”

6 Sibbern’s Philosophical Archive and Collection and the Resumption of the Flyvende Post: 1829–1830

I Peter Christian Kierkegaard’s Stay in Berlin

II Sibbern’s “On Abstraction and Abstract Analysis”

III Sibbern’s “On Intellectual Intuition”

IV Heiberg’s Poetical “Letter to the Magic Lantern Double in Sorø”

V Heiberg’s Review, “Bretschneider’s Defense of Rationalism”

VI Lorenzen’s Review of Heise’s Plato Edition

VII Heiberg’s Discussion of the Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller

7 Heiberg’s Promulgation of Hegelianism at the Royal Military College: 1831–1832

I Heiberg’s Overview of the Danish belles lettres

II Zeuthen’s Something about Philosophy and its Cultivation

III Zeuthen’s for Aesthetics and Philosophy

IV Hegel’s Death and the Speculation about His Successor

V Zeuthen’s On the Moral Independence of Man

VI Heiberg’s Speculative Logic

VII The Critical Reception of Heiberg’s Speculative Logic

8 The Debate about Heiberg’s On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age: 1833

I Zeuthen’s On the Idea of Modesty

II The Article “Hegel and Steffens”

III Heiberg’s On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age

IV Zeuthen’s Elucidations and Heiberg’s Response

V Mynster’s “On Religious Conviction”

VI The Review of On the Significance of Philosophy in Kjøbenhavnsposten

VII Tryde’s Review of On the Significance of Philosophy

VIII Heiberg’s Response

IX Tryde’s Rejoinder

X Møller’s Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy

XI Zeuthen’s Second Journey

9 The Resumption of Heiberg’s Flyvende Post: 1834–1835

I Heiberg’s “Symbolism”

II The Satirical Article, “Excerpts from Gumba’s Posthumous Manuscripts”

III Heiberg’s “Letters to a Village Pastor”

IV Heiberg’s Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course

V Møller’s Review of Sibbern’s On Poetry and Art

10 The End of an Era: 1836

I Møller’s Review of The Extremes

II Weis’ “Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Law and Positive Law”

III Peder Hjort’s “From a New Letter from the Provinces”

IV Kierkegaard and the Satirical Drama: “The Collegium Politicum of the Flyvende Post”

V Martensen’s Journey Abroad

VI Heiberg and Martensen in Paris

VII Sibbern’s Criticism of Hegel’s Account of Socrates

VIII A Response to Sibbern’s Criticism of Hegel’s Account of Socrates

IX The Transition to the Next Period of the Hegel Reception in Denmark

Bibliography

I Secondary Sources on the Danish Hegel Reception

II Primary Texts and Sources Used

III Secondary Literature and Material Used

Index of Persons

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jon Stewart is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has worked for many years in the field of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy with a specialization in Hegel and Kierkegaard.