Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered

by Jon Stewart

Overview

Jon Stewart's groundbreaking study is a major re-evaluation of the complex relationship between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel. Although the standard view on the subject is that Kierkegaard defined himself as explicitly anti-Hegelian (and viewed Hegel's philosophy with disdain), Jon Stewart demonstrates that Kierkegaard's criticism was not directed specifically to Hegel, but actually to some contemporary Danish Hegelians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521828383
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/15/2003
Series:	Modern European Philosophy
Pages:	718
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Jon Stewart was born in New York and lives with his wife and children in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of primary texts; Preface; Introduction; 1. Kierkegaard and Danish Hegelianism; 2. Traces of Hegel in From Papers of One Still Living and the early works; 3. The ironic thesis and Hegel's presence in The Concept of Irony; 4. Hegel's Aufhebung and Kierkegaard's Either/Or; 5. Kierkegaard's polemic with Martensen in Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est; 6. Kierkegaard's repetition and Hegel's dialectical mediation; 7. Hegel's view of moral conscience and Kierkegaard's interpretation of Abraham; 8. Martensen's doctrine of immanence and Kierkegaard's transcendence in the Philosophical Fragments; 9. The dispute with Adler in The Concept of Anxiety; 10. The polemic with Heiberg in Prefaces; 11. Subjective and objective thinking: Hegel in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript; 12. Adler's confusions and the results of Hegel's philosophy; 13. Kierkegaard's phenomenology of despair in The Sickness unto Death; 14. Kierkegaard and the development of nineteenth-century continental philosophy: conclusions, reflections and re-evaluations; Foreign language summaries; Bibliographies; Subject index; Index of persons.

Editorial Reviews

"...a major achievement in contemporary Kierkegaard scholarship...As Stewart points out, the relationship between Kierkegaard and Hegel has been a common topic of comment in general histories of nineteenth-century thought, and the book will therefore be of interest beyond the world of those taking or conducting courses in Kierkegaard's thought." George Pattison, King's College, Cambridge

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