Heiberg's Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course and Other Texts

by Jon Stewart (Editor)

This volume features one of Johan Ludvig Heiberg's very best philosophical works, the Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course, which was originally given as a lecture in 1834 and then published in 1835. This work is one of the clearest statements of Heiberg's Hegelian idealism. Here he makes a case for the primacy of philosophy over, for example, religion or the natural sciences by appealing to a theory of categories. Following Hegel's model, Heiberg places philosophical knowing higher than religious knowing.

Despite the title of the work, Heiberg is not concerned solely with logic or metaphysics. He also treats, for example, philosophy of language and aesthetics, setting up a cursory taxonomy of forms of poetry. This text further contains his famous appeal to "the demand of the age," which was so often the object of Kierkegaard's satire in works such as Prefaces and Stages on Life's Way.

334 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2009

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