Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered

A major re-evaluation of the complex relations between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel.

Jon Stewart (Author)

9780521039512, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 16 August 2007

720 pages
22.5 x 15.3 x 4 cm, 1.056 kg

'Stewart has blessed the English reading public with his monumental effort … I am enriched by the philosophical, literary, and historical information in his book …' International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Jon Stewart's study is a major re-evaluation of the complex relations between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel. The standard view on the subject is that Kierkegaard defined himself as explicitly anti-Hegelian, indeed that he viewed Hegel's philosophy with disdain. Jon Stewart shows convincingly that Kierkegaard's criticism was not of Hegel but of a number of contemporary Danish Hegelians. Kierkegaard's own view of Hegel was in fact much more positive to the point where he was directly influenced by some of Hegel's work. Any scholar working in the tradition of Continental philosophy will find this an insightful and provocative book with implications for the subsequent history of philosophy in the twentieth century. The book will also appeal to scholars in religious studies and the history of ideas.

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.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Religion & beliefs [HR], Philosophy [HP]