The Corsair affair has been called the "most renowned controversy in
Danish literary history." At the center is Søren Kierkegaard, whose
pseudonymous Stages on Life's Way occasioned a frivolous and
dishonorable review by Peder Ludvig Møller. Møller was associated
with The Corsair, a publication notorious for gossip and caricature.
The editor was Meïr Goldschmidt, an acquaintance of Kierkegaard's and
an admirer of his early work. Kierkegaard struck back at not only
Møller and Goldschmidt but at the paper as a whole. The present
volume contains all of the documents relevant to this dispute, plus a
historical introduction that recapitulates the sequence of events
surrounding the controversy. Parts I (Article) and II (Addenda)
contain articles both signed by and attributed to Kierkegaard in
response to the affair. A supplement includes writings pertaining to
the Corsair affair by Goldschmidt and Møller, as well as unpublished
pieces by Kierkegaard from his journals and papers. Although the
immediate occasion was literary, for Kierkegaard the issues as well as
the consequences were ethical, social, philosophical, and religious.
Howard Hong argues that the most important consequence was wholly
unexpected and unintended: the second phase of Kierkegaard's
authorship.
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9781400832279
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2015
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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