The Ethics of Authorship: Communication, Seduction, and Death in Hegel and Kierkegaard

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notes  Introduction: Rorschach Tests 1. Aristophanes, The Clouds, trans. Alan H. Sommerstein (New York: Penguin , 1983), 117, 122, 125, 129, 145. 2. The story is told by Aelian (c. 170–c. 235) in his Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia), ed. and trans. N. G. Wilson (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977), 85 (2.13). Aelian’s interpretation is that Socrates’ act was one of defiance, demonstrating his ‘‘contempt for comedy and the Athenians’’ (85). 3. Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Main representatives of Danish Hegelianism were Johan Heiberg, Hans Martensen, and Adolph Adler. 4. See Jean Wahl, Études Kierkegaardiennes (Paris: Fernard Aubier, 1938); Stephen Crites, In the Twilight of Christendom: Hegel vs. Kierkegaard on Faith and History (Chambersburg, Penn.: American Academy of Religion, 1972); Stephen Dunning, Kierkegaard’s Dialectic of Inwardness: A Structural Analysis of the Theory of Stages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered; Mark C. Taylor, ‘‘Aesthetic Therapy: Hegel and Kierkegaard,’’ in Kierkegaard’s Truth: The Disclosure of the Self, ed. Joseph H. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 343–80; Mark C. Taylor, Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980); and Merold Westphal, ‘‘Kierkegaard and Hegel,’’ in The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. Alastair Hannay (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 101–24. Of course, there are others who explore genuine dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard but not in as sustained a way as those mentioned. Paul Ricoeur is a good example: ‘‘It is not just a biographical trait or a fortuitous encounter but a constitutive structure of Kierkegaard’s thought that it is not thinkable apart from Hegel.’’ ‘‘Two Encounters with Kierkegaard: Kierkegaard and Evil; Doing Philosophy after Kierkegaard,’’ in Kierkegaard’s Truth: 185 186 ‡ notes to pages 4– 9 The Disclosure of the Self, ed. Joseph H. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981),336. 5. All references to Hegel’s works will be given parenthetically in the text. See Abbreviations. 6. All works of Kierkegaard and his pseudonyms will be cited parenthetically in the text. See Abbreviations. 7. Roland Barthes, ‘‘The Death of the Author,’’ in Image, Music, Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), 148. 8. Niels Thulstrup, Kierkegaard’s Relation to Hegel, trans. George Stengren (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), 12. 9. Richard Kroner, ‘‘Kierkegaard’s Understanding of Hegel,’’ Union Seminary Quarterly Review 21, no. 2, part 2 (1966): 234. See also Kroner’s ‘‘Kierkegaard or Hegel?’’ Revue Internationale de Philosophie 19 (1952): 79–96. 10. Paul Ricoeur, ‘‘Two Encounters with Kierkegaard,’’ in Kierkegaard’s Truth: The Disclosure of the Self, ed. Joseph H. Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981): 335–36. 11. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999), xviii–xix. 12. William Faulkner, interview with Jean Stein vanden Heuvel, The Paris Review Interviews 12 (Spring 1956): 4. 13. Quoted in Walter Lowrie, A Short Life of Kierkegaard (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965), 81. The letter, which may or may not have been sent—see Joakim Garff, Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, trans. Bruce Kirmmse (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 53—is preserved in Kierkegaard’s journals (P 1 A 75). 14. Franz Kafka, quoted in ‘‘Poetry Critical: Online Poetry Workshop,’’ http://poetrycritical.net/read/56256/. The quote may be apocryphal; I have been unable to locate the original source. 15. Alfred Kazin, quoted in Think (February 1963). 16. See PV 20, and the two ‘‘Notes’’ appended to the Point of View, ‘‘Concerning the Dedication to ‘The Individual’’’ and ‘‘A Word about the Relation of My Literary Activity to ‘The Individual’’’ (109–20, 121–36). See also Lowrie , Short Life of Kierkegaard, 162. 17. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Basic Writings of Nietzsche , trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1968),§289. 18. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974), §213. 19. On Kierkegaard’s claim that Hegel had no ethics, see Paul Cruysberghs , ‘‘Hegel Has No Ethics: Climacus’ Complaints against Speculative Philosophy ,’’ Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook (2005): 175–91. notes to pages 9–19 ‡ 187 20. A philosopher ‘‘must beware of the wish to be edifying’’ (PS 6). 21. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions , 1964), 39. 22. Barthes, ‘‘Death of the Author,’’ 142. 23. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A...