The Corsair Affair

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Robert L. Perkins
Mercer University Press, 1990 - 193 pages

The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian.

This is volume 13 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.


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A Key to Kierkegaards Views of the Daily Press
1
Modernity Mass Society and the Media Reflections on the Corsair Affair
23
The Corsair Affair Kierkegaard and Critical Social Theory
63
A WordExperiment on the Category of the Comic
85
Reflections on the Corsair Affair
123
Søren Kierkegaard and P L Møller Erotic Space Shattered
141
Could Kierkegaard Have Written Literary Quicksilver?
163
This Disastrous Confounding of Politics and Christianity Kierkegaards Open Letter of 1851
179
Contributors
Advisory Board
Bradley R Dewey and Niels Thulstrup
Index
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Robert L. Perkins+ (Ph.D., Indiana University), Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University, was an international authority on the Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and series editor of the 24-volume International Kierkegaard Commentary. Prior to his long career at Stetson, Bob was founder and department chair (for 16 years) of the Philosophy Department at the University of South Alabama. His research interests in Kierkegaard provoked his studies in ethics, contemporary philosophy, and ancient philosophy.

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