Volume 3: Kierkegaard and the Roman World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Stewart, Jon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While Kierkegaard's use of the Greek authors, particularly Plato and Aristotle, has attracted considerable attention over the years, his use of the Roman authors has, by contrast, remained sadly neglected. This neglect is somewhat surprising given the fact that Kierkegaard was extremely well read in Latin from his early youth when he attended the Borgerdyd School in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard's interest in the Roman authors is perhaps best evidenced by his book collection. In his private library he had a long list of Latin titles and Danish translations of the standard Roman authors in any number of different genres. His extensive and frequent use of writers such as Cicero, Horace, Terence, Seneca, Suetonius and Ovid clearly warrants placing them in the select group of his major sources. The chapters in this volume demonstrate that Kierkegaard made use of the Roman sources in a number of different ways. His readings from the school seem to have stuck with him as an adult. He constantly refers to Roman authors, such as Livy, Nepos, and Suetonius for colourful stories and anecdotes. In short, the Roman authors serve to enrich any number of different aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship with respect to both content and form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351874632
• Artikelnr.: 49355037

Autorenporträt

Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Sÿren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Apuleius: direct and possible indirect influences on the
thought of Kierkegaard, Stacey E. Ake; Cicero: a handy Roman companion:
Marcus Tullius Cicero's appearance in Kierkegaard's works, Thomas Eske
Rasmussen; Horace: the art of poetry and the search for the good life,
Thomas Miles; Livy: The History of Rome in Kierkegaard's works, Nataliya
Vorobyova; Marcus Aurelius: Kierkegaard's use and abuse of the stoic
emperor, Rick Anthony Furtak; Nepos: traces of Kierkegaard's use of an
edifying Roman biographer, Jon Stewart; Ovid: of love and exile:
Kierkegaard's appropriation of Ovid, Steven P. Sondrup; Sallust:
Kierkegaard's scarce use of a great Roman historian, Niels W. Bruun;
Seneca: Disjecta Membra in Kierkegaard's writings, Niels W. Brunn;
Suetonius: exemplars of truth and madness: Kierkegaard's proverbial uses of
Suetonius' Lives, Sebastian Hÿeg Gulmann; Tacitus: Christianity as odium
generis humani, Jon Stewart; Terence: traces of Roman comedy in
Kierkegaard's writings, Mikkel Larsen; Valerius Maximus: moral Exempla in
Kierkegaard's writings, Nataliya Vorobyova; Virgil: from farms to empire:
Kierkegaard's understanding of a Roman poet, Steven P. Sondrup; Indexes.