Kierkegaard's Hidden Polemics against Heiberg and Martensen in the Last Chapter of The Concept of Irony

TY - JOUR

T1 - Kierkegaard's Hidden Polemics against Heiberg and Martensen in the Last Chapter of The Concept of Irony

AU - Jessen, Mads Sohl

PY - 2011/11/16

Y1 - 2011/11/16

N2 - Søren Kierkegaard mentions two of his Danish contemporaries, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Martensen, in the final chapter of his master's dissertation The Concept of Irony from 1841. This article seeks to demonstrate that Kierkegaard is actually in this very chapter conducting a hidden polemic against these two important figures of the Danish Golden Age by employing highly ironic allusions to Heiberg's On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age (1833) as well as his satirical poem "A Soul after Death" from New Poems (1840) and Martensen's laudatory review of the poem in the newspaper Fædrelandet.

AB - Søren Kierkegaard mentions two of his Danish contemporaries, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Martensen, in the final chapter of his master's dissertation The Concept of Irony from 1841. This article seeks to demonstrate that Kierkegaard is actually in this very chapter conducting a hidden polemic against these two important figures of the Danish Golden Age by employing highly ironic allusions to Heiberg's On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age (1833) as well as his satirical poem "A Soul after Death" from New Poems (1840) and Martensen's laudatory review of the poem in the newspaper Fædrelandet.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1430-5372

VL - 2011

SP - 103

EP - 114

JO - Kierkegaard Studies

JF - Kierkegaard Studies

ER -