The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1982

Overview

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 A supplement includes writings pertaining to the Corsair affair by Goldschmidt and Møller, as well as unpublished pieces by Kierkegaard from his journals and papers.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.

Product Details

• Title: The Corsair Affair and Articles Related to the Writings
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XIII
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1982
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, 1813-1855 › Addresses, essays, lectures; Corsaren › Addresses, essays, lectures; Goldschmidt, Meïr Aron, 1819-1887 › Addresses, essays, lectures; Møller, Peder Ludvig, 1814-1865 › Addresses, essays, lectures
• ISBNs: 9781400832279, 0691072469, 0691140758, 9780691072463, 9780691140759, 1400832276
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS13
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:00:00Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.