ABSTRACT
In his introduction to Soren Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries: The Culture of Golden Age Denmark, Jon Stewart lays out the purpose of the anthology. Its goal "is to familiarize the English-speaking world with Kierkegaard's diverse relations to the leading figures in Golden Age Denmark." Stewart's anthology sets out to remedy this situation by presenting essays on a wide variety of Golden Age writers, philosophers, theologians, and artists. Stewart's own "Kierkegaard and Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark" and K. Brian Soderquist's "Kierkegaard's Contribution to the Danish Discussion of 'Irony'" are exemplary. For Stewart, an understanding of Danish Hegelianism does much to enrich Kierkegaard's own approach to Hegel. K. Brian Soderquist's "Kierkegaard's Contribution to the Danish Discussion of 'Irony'" is also effective. Stewart's text continues to give inspiration to those interested in the specific social, artistic, and cultural conditions of Kierkegaard's Denmark.
