Kierkegaard und His Contemporaries

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

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

"Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries is as a whole a most welcome contribution to the continuing effort of a part of many scholars to offer accounts of the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard worked that will provide a surer foundation for understanding his works in terms of the norms and expectations of his time. The volume is clearly based on the assumption that a rounded, textured, and subtly nuanced contextualization will contribute significantly to the understanding of his works."Steven P. Sondrup in: Scandinavian Studies 2005

"Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries is as a whole a most welcome contribution to the continuing effort of a part of many scholars to offer accounts of the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Kierkegaard worked that will provide a surer foundation for understanding his works in terms of the norms and expectations of his time. The volume is clearly based on the assumption that a rounded, textured, and subtly nuanced contextualization will contribute significantly to the understanding of his works."
Steven P. Sondrup in: Scandinavian Studies 2005