ABSTRACT
Research on Kierkegaard’s relation to Hoffmann seems to lag far behind in comparison to the abundance of investigations on his relation to other German Romantic authors. The primary reason for this is that there are relatively few passages and critical comments in Kierkegaard’s works that directly mention the name or the works of E.T.A. Hoffmann. This stands in contrast to the numerous passages where Kierkegaard explicitly mentions other Romantics such as Friedrich Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, Jean Paul or Solger. The reason for this lack of research on�� or superficial study of�� Hoffmann is no doubt The Concept of Irony, where Kierkegaard devotes a separate chapter to other Romantic authors but fails to treat Hoffmann, indeed, fails even to mention him. Despite this fact, Kierkegaard did nevertheless devote a great deal of time to the works of the German writer�� and the signs of Hoffmann’s in��uence can be unambiguously traced, not so much in a quantitative but rather in a qualitative sense.
