The Literary Kierkegaard

Index

Index “A” (aesthete of Either/Or). See under Kierkegaard’s pseudonyms A. B. C. D. E. F. Godthaab. See under Kierkegaard’s pseudonyms Abdiel: against evil, 357n103 Abelard, Peter, 91, 298; and Heloïse, 278 Abraham, 19, 78, 124, 266, 312; against evil, 357n103; antithetical to Hamlet, 204–5; as comic, 150; commanded to sacrifice Isaac, 108, 124; compared with Don Quixote, 129, 150; compared with Teufelsdröckh, 235–36; divine madness of, 309; as idolater and monster, 279; Kafka’s parable about, 129, 150, 350n21; Kierkegaard compared with, 183; as knight of faith, 112, 129, 147; as man of faith, 35, 140; en route to or on Mt. Moriah, 112–14, 150, 187, 205, 236; as religious prototype, 35, 166, 173; silence of, 108, 112–14; suspension of ethical by, 112, 124–25, 204–205, 236; torment of, 187, 205 Abrahamic faith, 117 Abrahamic individual, 103–104 Abrahamic resignation, 205 Abrams, M. H., 136–37 absolute τέλος, 51, 92, 122–24, 157 absurdity, 336n93; as crucial to faith, 152; Don Quixote as prototype of, 140, 152 Achilles: compared with Kierkegaard, 90 Adam: could not laugh, 242 Addison, Joseph, 237, 242, 317, 346n66, 373nn92 and 98, 375n110, 385n10 Adorno, Theodor: Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, 7–8, 14, 15–16, 18, 320n7 Aelian, 58, 59, 76, 336n92; Variae historiae , 70 Aeneas, 89 aesthetics (aesthetic, esthetics), 4–19, 26, 36–37; coined by Baumgarten, 9, 12, 18; existentialization of, 17; German Romantics regarding, 8, 11–13, 17; Kierkegaard as Christian in love with, 5. See also under Bosanquet, Bernard; Croce, Benedetto; Hamann, Johann Georg; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ; Walsh, Sylvia aesthetic stage of existence. See stages of existence (as conceptualized by Kierkegaard) Ahasuerus, 5, 19, 98, 272; as embodied by Faust, 344n41; in Europe, 379n36; as “medieval personification,” 96. See also Wandering Jew Akedah. See under Isaac (son of Abraham) Aladdin (character of Oehlenschläger), 33; in Anderson’s Kierkegaard: A Novel, 266, 268 Alceste (character of Molière), 132 Ameipsias: Connus, 329n9 Andersen, Hans Christian, 21, 33, 35, 41, 323n73, 347n81; A Comedy in the Open Air, 63, 260, 263, 333n72; Dreyer compared to, 294; Only a Fiddler , 27; in Stangerup’s The Seducer, 272 Anderson, Barbara, 53, 379n30; Kierkegaard: A Fiction (KF), 265–70, 271, 280, 283, 287, 289, 290, 305 Andic, Martin, 330n12, 361n20 Anfortas (Grail king, Parzival’s uncle), 107, 109–10, 115, 117, 124, 251; guilt of, 114; silence of, 114; suffering of, 111, 114, 118–19, 121–23 Anselm of Canterbury, 91 387 Anti-Climacus. See under Kierkegaard’s pseudonymsanxiety of influence (theory of Bloom), 38, 44, 181, 325n101 Anytus (prosecutor of Socrates), 58 Anz, Wilhelm, 334n73 Aphrodite, 59 apostles (of Christ), 164, 166, 172. See also Christ’s disciples Apostles’ Creed, 303 Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas archetypes, 90 Ariosto, Ludovico, 131 Aristarco, Guido, 295 Aristophanes, 3–4, 36, 99, 329nn9 and 12; as altered Voltaire, 373n99; irony of, 71–73, 77; laughter used by, 78–80; Kierkegaard and, 4, 47, 49–51, 55–56, 63–86, 131, 188–89, 341n139; Kierkegaard as equivalent of, 50, 75, 85, 341n139; Tieck as “Romantic” equivalent of, 61; as representing the tragic in the comic, 62 —as viewed/depicted by or in: German Romantics, 60–62; Hegel, 61, 64–66, 69, 71, 77, 85, 131, 139, 154; Heine, 56, 61, 329n8; Jean Paul, 131, 350n24; Plato’s Symposium , 55, 59–60, 80; Rötscher, 43, 70–74, 77, 189, 336nn94, 97 and 101, 338n123; Schlegel brothers, 4, 60, 332n51; Tieck, 4, 60–61 —dramas of: Birds, 57 Clouds, 3, 188–89; and the comic, 70–72; compared with Kierkegaard ’s “Battle Between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars,” 28, 62–63, 333nn65 and 70, 367n17; its depiction/satirization of Socrates, 56–60, 64–77, 79, 83, 84, 190, 257, 259–60, 329nn11–12, 331n28; humor of, 57; Kierkegaard’s Concept of Irony on, 50, 52, 56, 63–76; Kierkegaard’s pseudonyms on, 76; “Literary Quicksilver” on, 80; original performances of, 56–57, 59, 131, 329n9; rejected as historically reliable source on Socrates, 57, 330n24 Frogs, 57, 59, 76, 350n24 Knights, 77, 81, 340n134 Plutos, 77 Wasps, 57, 76–77. See also Browning, Robert; Süss, Wilhelm; Zorn, Johannes Aristotle, 21, 26, 41, 47, 167, 375n110; Politics, 357n105; on Socrates, 75 Arjuna, 157, 356n92; compared with Hamlet, 158; and ethical, 158 Arndt, Johannes, 91 Arnim, Bettina von (née Bettina [Elisabeth ] Brentano), 272, 275 Arthur. See King Arthur Arthurian romances, 101 Ast, Friedrich, 38 atonement, 115, 117, 120–21...