ABSTRACT

The 1990s were characterized by a renewed and strong interest in Søren Kierkegaard's thought in Hungary. Therefore, it was a real breakthrough when Zoltán Gyenge published his first work entitled Kierkegaard and German Idealism in 1996, which marked the beginning of a new epoch in the Hungarian research. The merit of this monograph is not only its comprehensive use of the recent English and German secondary literature but also its completely new approach to the problems of Kierkegaard's relation to German idealism. As regards the Hungarian discourse, it is to be emphasized that Gyenge also published the first, exhaustively annotated Hungarian edition of Kierkegaard's notes on Schelling's Berlin lectures in 1841-42, which was another important contribution to the interpretation of this issue. The book consists of two main parts, namely, one about Schelling and one about Kierkegaard. The book closes with a short summary repeatedly highlighting the main links between Schelling and Kierkegaard.