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The Heiberg Period: 1824-1836, 2nd Revised and Augmented Edition
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This is the first of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of Golden Age culture.
This initial tome covers the period from the beginning of the Hegel reception in the Danish Kingdom in the 1820s until the end of 1836. The dominant figure from this period is the poet and critic Johan Ludvig Heiberg, who attended Hegel’s lectures in Berlin in 1824 and then launched a campaign to popularize Hegel’s philosophy among his fellow countrymen. Using his journal Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post as a platform, Heiberg published numerous articles containing ideas that he had borrowed from Hegel. Several readers felt provoked by Heiberg’s Hegelianism and wrote critical responses to him, many of which appeared in Kjøbenhavnsposten, the rival of Heiberg’s journal. Through these debates Hegel’s philosophy became an important part of Danish cultural life.
The Martensen Period: 1837-1841, 2nd Revised and Augmented Edition
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This is the second volume in a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of the Golden Age culture.
This second tome treats the most intensive period in the history of the Danish Hegel reception, namely, the years from 1837 to 1841. The main figure in this period is the theologian Hans Martensen who made Hegel’s philosophy a sensation among the students at the University of Copenhagen in the late 1830s. This period also includes the publication of Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s Hegelian journal, Perseus, and Frederik Christian Sibbern’s monumental review of it, which represented the most extensive treatment of Hegel’s philosophy in the Danish language at the time. During this period Hegel’s philosophy flourished in unlikely genres such as drama and lyric poetry. During these years Hegelianism enjoyed an unprecedented success in Denmark until it gradually began to be perceived as a dangerous trend.
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Event and Subjectivity presents a rich phenomenological analysis of the event in contemporary phenomenology by focussing on the work of Claude Romano and Jean-Luc Marion. Although the event is a major topic of contemporary philosophy, its centrality has not been acknowledged enough in the phenomenological movement. The book starts with the idea that the event cannot find a proper place in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Heidegger’s existential phenomenology.
It proposes a phenomenological version of the event that transforms the definition of phenomenon, subjectivity and phenomenology itself in order to do justice to the phenomenality of the event.
At the same time, Event and Subjectivity is the first book on Claude Romano’s understanding of phenomenology in English. It also offers a fresh reading of the phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion by highlighting the phenomenon of the event.
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With figures such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche, the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. The period made lasting contributions to several fields of philosophy. Moreover, it paved the way for the development of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume is dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy in its different areas with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of this tradition in the development of the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaïd’s renovation of Marxism. Bensaïd, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaïd’s writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso’s volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.
Nathaniel Barron offers the first book length account in English of Ernst Bloch’s contribution to a Marxist philosophy of language. It is ambitious both in situating Bloch’s ideas in the broader Marxist engagement with language as it currently exists, and in using Bloch’s utopian categories to challenge that engagement. In particular, Barron reads Voloshinov’s insights into language through Bloch’s categories, and argues that Bloch advances on Voloshinov by offering an understanding of the social materiality of language which is more useful for challenging fascist forms of utterance.
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Although some commentators have drawn attention to the relationship between Freud and philosophy, particularly the influence of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Viennese psychoanalyst, the same emphasis has not been placed on highlighting the importance of Kierkegaard’s thought as a theoretical antecedent of the future field of psychoanalysis. The aim of this article is to reveal the central formulations of The Concept of Anxiety as a thematic and conceptual anticipation of Freud’s early writings. Freud’s first writings from the end of the 19th century, in which an intimate link between anxiety and sexuality is proposed, can be considered as a deepening of the issues raised in The Concept of Anxiety, a consideration that assumes a certain thematic continuity between the psychology of spirit and Neurosenpsychologie.

In: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy

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Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works mean a rupture with the philosophical modern ideas about subjectivity. This rupture can be appreciated in The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death. These psychological works presuppose a theory of the subjectivity of sin. Both show that the freedom in which the self was once constituted cannot respond to possibility, since it opens the door to sinfulness. Thus, man must plunge into the desperate realization that before God he will lose, rendering useless his attempts at self-foundation.

In: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy

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Philosophical conceptions elaborated by the representatives of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism, Herman Cohen, Paul Natorp, and Ernst Cassirer, admit of characterization as an endeavor to give a contemporary answer to Kant’s principal problem—the quandary of the possibility of the mutual coexistence of science (causality), ethics (norms), and aesthetics (purposefulness). Neo-Kantians were conscious of the fact that fundamental forms of our being-in-the-world—which Cassirer dubs “symbolic forms”—obey distinct and irreducible principles. The response to Kant’s question of the “harmony in contrariety” existing among science, ethics, and art is just a theory of culture as a concurrence of diverse forms—equally valid and legitimate—of humans’ bestowing of sense and world-building. Through the power of symbolic thought, as a coping mechanism for survival in the indifferent materiality of the cosmos, humanity builds up, Cassirer proposes, a spiritual cosmos, an “ideal” world of their own.

In: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy
In: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy