Kierkegaards skjulte polemik mod Heiberg og Martensen i sidste afsnit af Om Begrebet Ironi

Abstract

Søren Kierkegaard mentions two of his Danish contemporaries, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Martensen, in the final chapter of his master's disseration The Concept of Irony from 1841. This article seeks to demonstrate that Kierkegaard is actually in this very chapter conducting a hidden polemics against these two important figures in the Danish Golden Age by employing some highly ironic allusions to Heiberg’s On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age (1833) as well as his satirical long poem »A Soul after Death« (1840) and Martensen’s laudatory review of the poem in the newspaper Fædrelandet.