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title	:	Receiving Sren Kierkegaard : The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought
author	:	Malik, Habib C.
publisher	:	Catholic University of America Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0813208785
print isbn13	:	9780813208787
ebook isbn13	:	9780813210575
language	:	English
subject	Kierkegaard, Sren,--1813-1855.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	B4377.M36 1996eb
ddc	:	198/.9
subject	:	Kierkegaard, Sren,--1813-1855.

Page i Receiving Sren Kierkegaard

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Page iii Receiving Sren Kierkegaard The Early Impact and Transmission of His Thought Habib C. Malik

Page iv Copyright 1997 The Catholic University of America Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Frontispiece: drawing by Chr. Kierkegaard. Courtesy of The Royal Danish Embassy, Washington, D.C. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standards for Information SciencePermanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, ANSI z39.48-1984. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Malik, Habib C., 1954 Receiving Sren Kierkegaard : the early impact and transmission of his thought / by Habib C. Malik. p. cm. Includes bibhographical references (p. ) and index. 1. Kierkegaard, Sren, 18131855. I. Title. B4377.M36 1996 198'.9dc20 96-23905 ISBN 0-8132-0878-5

Page v To the memory of my dear parents Charles H. Malik and Eva B. Malik Without their love, this work and much else that is good in my life would not have been possible.

Page vi Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xv Introduction xvii 1. Kierkegaard and Some Contemporaries (i): The ''Non-Reception'' by Anderson and rsted 1 2. Kierkegaard and Some Contemporaries (ii): Glimmerings of an Early Reception beyond Denmark 43 3. The Kirkekampen and Its Immediate Aftermath: Seeds of "Misreception" 78 4. A Foray into Drama? The Case of Ibsen 136

Page vii 5. The ''Tro og Viden'' Controversy, or the Rise and Demise of "Pseudo-Kierkegaard" 171 6. The Biographical-Psychological Approach and Its Perils: Georg Brandes and Criticism As Suppression 211 7. The Kierkegaard Legacy and the Fin De Sicle 283 8. The Beginnings of Serious Reception in the German-Speaking World 339 Conclusion 393 Bibliography 397 Index 425

Page ix Preface As far back as I can remember, the name Kierkegaard has buzzed around my home, thanks mainly to my late father's philosophical preoccupations and religious orientation. It was not an exclusive focus, however, for Kierkegaard was usually presented as belonging to a gallery of towering intellectual figures from the Western tradition to whom I received sustained, though often very cursory, exposure: the thinkers of ancient Greece, Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Kant, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Buber, among others. Yet Kierkegaard always seemed somehow special, and to a novice like myself, particularly abstruse in his elusiveness. Until, that is, I read and re-read Fear and Trembling in my twenties and became transfixed by Kierkegaard's penetrating phenomenology of the faith of Abraham, its central character. That book served, as it has on countless occasions with so many people, as the trigger setting me on the path of a Kierkegaardian journey. As my knowledge of Kierkegaard progressed, so also did my appreciation of the tremendously valuable nudge he almost singlehandedly gave philosophy away from abstraction and in the direction of the individual person wrestling continuously with the immediate implications for his or her life of the abiding issues that intimately touch human existence in every time and place

Page x and circumstance: God, man, freedom, death, suffering, evil, faith, love, others, humor, communication, self-discovery, morality, and happiness. Interested as I was in intellectual connections, the more deeply I delved into the Kierkegaardian corpus, the more curious I became about the impact it had on subsequent writers. I was developing a passion for the history of ideas, and Kierkegaard's fascinating influence was becoming its driving engine. Great was my delight therefore when Donald Fleming of the History Department at Harvard, in the course of surveying selected gaps in the intellectual history of modern Europe, mentioned that the early dissemination and reception of Kierkegaard's thought were largely

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