Now available from Ashgate Publishing… Volume 6, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries – Literature and Aesthetics
Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
This third tome is dedicated to the German literary sources that were Contents: Achim von Arnim: Kierkegaard’s encounters with a significant for Kierkegaard; in particular the work of authors from Heidelberg hermit, Judith Purver; Eichendorff: Kierkegaard’s reception German Classicism and Romanticism. Important forerunners for many of a German romantic, Judith Purver; Goethe: a German classic of Kierkegaard’s literary motifs and characters can be found in the through the filter of the Danish Golden Age,Jon Stewart and Katalin German literature of the day. His use of pseudonyms and his interest Nun; Hamann: sharing style and thesis: Kierkegaard’s appropriation in irony were both profoundly influenced by German Romanticism. of Hamann’s work, Sergia Karen Hay; E.T.A. Hoffmann: a source for This volume demonstrates the extent to which Kierkegaard’s views Kierkegaard’s conceptions of authorship, poetic-artistic existence, of criticism and aesthetics were decisively shaped by the work of irony and humor, Judit Bartha; Hotho: a dialogue on romantic irony German authors. and the fascination with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Joachim Grage; Jean Paul: apparent and hidden relations between Kierkegaard and Jean Paul, Markus Kleinert; Schiller: Kiekegaard’s use of a paradoxical poet, András Nagy; Friedrich Schlegel: on ironic communication, subjectivity and selfhood, K. Brian Söderquist; Solger: an apostle of irony sacrificed to Hegel’s system,Jon Stewart; Tieck: Kierkegaard’s ‘Guadalquivir’ of open critique and hidden appreciation, Marcia C. Robinson; Indexes.
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