Heiberg's Perseus and Other Texts

by Jon Stewart (Editor)

Overview

The poet and part-time philosopher Johan Ludvig Heiberg published the first issue of his review Perseus, Journal for the Speculative Idea in June of 1837 as a part of his long-standing campaign to convert his Golden Age contemporaries to G.W.F. Hegel's philosophical system. The journal was created in large part as a result of a dispute that Heiberg had with the editorial board of the prestigious Maanedsskrift for Litteratur about an article that he had submitted. Feeling unfairly persecuted, Heiberg retracted his submission and resolved to found a new philosophical journal of his own, in which his controversial piece could be published. Thus Perseus was born. In his prefatory address to the journal's readers, Heiberg calls upon the Greek hero Perseus to be the champion for the cause of Hegelian idealism and to do battle with the pernicious Medusa of realism and empiricism. Although Heiberg's Hegelian review only appeared in two issues in 1837 and 1838, it was widely read and discussed among Danish students and intellectuals of the time. It was reviewed at length by the philosopher Frederik Christian Sibbern and satirized by Søren Kierkegaard in Prefaces. There can be no doubt that Heiberg's Perseus represents a landmark in Golden Age culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788763531702
Publisher:	Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date:	12/04/2011
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jon Stewart is associate professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Abbreviations viii

Preface xiii

Introduction: The Origin and Influence of Heiberg's Perseus 1

Negotiations with the Editorial Board of the Maanedsskrift for Litteratur Johan Ludvig Heiberg 57

Perseus 69

To the Readers 75

Review of Dr. Rothe's Doctrine of the Trinity and Reconciliation 81

I Introduction 85

II The Infinite and the Finite 90

III Philosophy and System 106

IV Ideality and Idea 114

V Spirit and Immortality 125

VI The Revelation 138

Pseudonymous: Oi: Review of Perseus, Journal for the Speculative Idea 151

Seren Kierkegaard: Preface VIII (from Prefaces) 157

Explanatory Notes 181

Bibliographies 337

Indices 385