Volume 5, Tome III: Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions - Literature, Drama and Music
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Book III
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comparative literature analysis
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
COR
Danish Literature
des
deux
Don Quixote
drama theory
Du Christianisme
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European intellectual history
existential philosophy
Frater Taciturnus
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Kierkegaard literary influences research
Kierkegaard's Reception
Kierkegaard's Writings
kierkegaards
Kierkegaard’s Reception
Kierkegaard’s Writings
King Christian VI
Lady Teazle
lifes
mondes
Mozart
music aesthetics
Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum
Niels Klim
Peder Paars
peter
Peter Tudvad
revue
Richard III
Romanticism studies
stages
Superb
Talk Of The Town
Thomas Overskou
tudvad
way
Welt Als Wille Und Vorstellung
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754668206
- Weight: 703g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Aug 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods. Moreover, he also read a diverse range of genres. His interests concerned not just philosophy, theology and literature but also drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard's sources in these different fields of thought. Tome III covers the sources that are relevant for literature, drama and music. Kierkegaard was well read in the European literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. He was captivated by the figure of Cervantes' Don Quixote, who is used as a model for humor and irony. He also enjoyed French literature, represented here by articles on Chateaubriand, Lamartine, and Mérimée. French dramatists were popular on the Danish stage, and Kierkegaard demonstrated an interest in, among others, Moliére and Scribe. Although he never possessed strong English skills, this did not prevent him from familiarizing himself with English literature, primarily with the help of German translations. While there is an established body of secondary material on Kierkegaard's relation to Shakespeare, little has been said about his use of the Irish dramatist Sheridan. It is obvious from, among other things, The Concept of Irony that Kierkegaard knew in detail the works of some of the main writers of the German Romantic movement. However, his use of the leading figures of the British Romantic movement, Byron and Shelley, remains largely unexplored terrain. The classic Danish authors of the eighteenth century, Holberg, Wessel and Ewald, were influential figures who prepared the way for the Golden Age of Danish poetry. Kierkegaard constantly refers to their dramatic characters, whom he often employs to illustrate a philosophical idea with a pregnant example or turn of phrase. Finally, while Kierkegaard is not an obvious name in musicology, his analysis of Mozart's Don Giovanni shows that he had a keen interest in music on many different levels.
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
