Abstract
This article provides an English translation of Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s “On the Principle of the Beginning of History,” which was published in Heiberg’s journal the Intelligensblade in 1843. This is the first translation of this article into any language. A general introduction to this work is provided in the article that follows “Heiberg’s Article on History and Kierkegaard’s Critique.”
This work was produced at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. It was supported by the Agency APVV under the project “Philosophical Anthropology in the Context of Current Crises of Symbolic Structures,” APVV-20 – 0137. Jon Stewart is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Visiting Professor, Universidad Panamericana, Instituto de Humanidades, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer 101, Aguascalientes, 20290, Mexico. I also gratefully acknowledge the help of my friend Finn Gredal Jensen from the Society for Danish Language and Literature.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
- Either/Or Read as Bildungsroman
- Wielding Fear and Trembling Against Religious Violence and Bigotry
- Repetition and the Art of Writing Novels
- Voice and Fertility, (Self‐)Impregnation and (Inter‐)Dependence: The Pseudonyms and their (Narratives about) Wives
- The Logic of Contemporaneity: On Anti-Climacus’s Philosophy of History
- “A Place of Rest at the Foot of the Altar”: Topological Categories and Correlations in Kierkegaard’s last Discourse at the Communion on Fridays
- Section 2: Concepts, Problems and Theories in Kierkegaard
- Section 2: Concepts, Problems and Theories in Kierkegaard
- Kierkegaard’s View on Theater “with Continual References” to Contemporary Theater Theories
- Kierkegaard’s Hermeneutics of Anxiety and Agonistic Hermeneutics
- Kierkegaard’s Strong Anti-Rationalism: Offense as a Propaedeutic to Faith
- Kierkegaard’s Deontology of Love
- What Thinkers Call “the Other”
- Colossal Vacuums: Kierkegaard and the Rise of the Public in the Anthropocene
- Revolutionizing the Right to Revolt: Søren Kierkegaard and the Responsibility to Revolt
- ‚Für das Bestehende spendiert‘: Die Kategorie des Korrektivs als Instrument der schriftstellerischen und existentiellen Selbstpositionierung Kierkegaards
- Section 3: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Reception
- Section 3: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Reception
- Time or Eternity? An Approach to the Kierkegaardian Notion of Spirit through the Movement of Finitude in Dialogue with Levinas
- Toward an Upbuilding Metapsychology: Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the Infinite Movement
- Who Permits Evil? Plantinga’s Free Will Defense and Kierkegaard’s Free Spirit Offense: In Search of a Coherent Theistic Solution to the Problem of Evil
- Law and Gospel, Distinction and Dialectic: C.F.W. Walther, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Rich Young Ruler
- Revisiting the Czech Reception of Kierkegaard in Early 20th Century
- Kierkegaard and Religionswissenschaft: A Source- and Reception-Historical Survey (Part 1)
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Contemporaries – Sources in Translation and Commentary
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Contemporaries – Sources in Translation and Commentary
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s “On the Principle of the Beginning of History”
- Heiberg’s Article on History and Kierkegaard’s Critique
- Backmatter
- Abbreviations
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
- Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard’s Works
- Either/Or Read as Bildungsroman
- Wielding Fear and Trembling Against Religious Violence and Bigotry
- Repetition and the Art of Writing Novels
- Voice and Fertility, (Self‐)Impregnation and (Inter‐)Dependence: The Pseudonyms and their (Narratives about) Wives
- The Logic of Contemporaneity: On Anti-Climacus’s Philosophy of History
- “A Place of Rest at the Foot of the Altar”: Topological Categories and Correlations in Kierkegaard’s last Discourse at the Communion on Fridays
- Section 2: Concepts, Problems and Theories in Kierkegaard
- Section 2: Concepts, Problems and Theories in Kierkegaard
- Kierkegaard’s View on Theater “with Continual References” to Contemporary Theater Theories
- Kierkegaard’s Hermeneutics of Anxiety and Agonistic Hermeneutics
- Kierkegaard’s Strong Anti-Rationalism: Offense as a Propaedeutic to Faith
- Kierkegaard’s Deontology of Love
- What Thinkers Call “the Other”
- Colossal Vacuums: Kierkegaard and the Rise of the Public in the Anthropocene
- Revolutionizing the Right to Revolt: Søren Kierkegaard and the Responsibility to Revolt
- ‚Für das Bestehende spendiert‘: Die Kategorie des Korrektivs als Instrument der schriftstellerischen und existentiellen Selbstpositionierung Kierkegaards
- Section 3: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Reception
- Section 3: Kierkegaard’s Sources and Reception
- Time or Eternity? An Approach to the Kierkegaardian Notion of Spirit through the Movement of Finitude in Dialogue with Levinas
- Toward an Upbuilding Metapsychology: Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the Infinite Movement
- Who Permits Evil? Plantinga’s Free Will Defense and Kierkegaard’s Free Spirit Offense: In Search of a Coherent Theistic Solution to the Problem of Evil
- Law and Gospel, Distinction and Dialectic: C.F.W. Walther, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Rich Young Ruler
- Revisiting the Czech Reception of Kierkegaard in Early 20th Century
- Kierkegaard and Religionswissenschaft: A Source- and Reception-Historical Survey (Part 1)
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Contemporaries – Sources in Translation and Commentary
- Section 4: Kierkegaard’s Contemporaries – Sources in Translation and Commentary
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s “On the Principle of the Beginning of History”
- Heiberg’s Article on History and Kierkegaard’s Critique
- Backmatter
- Abbreviations