Kierkegaard's Writings, XXIV, Volume 24 : : The Book on Adler / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• HerausgeberIn: Hong, Edna H.,; Hong, Howard V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 9 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Historical Introduction --; The Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon --; Editor's Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter I. The Historical Situation --; Chapter II. A Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age --; Chapter III. Adler's Own Shifting of His Essential Point of View, or That He Does Not Understand Himself, Does Not Himself Believe That a Revelation Has Been Given to Him --; Appendix to Chapter III --; Chapter IV. A Psychological View of Adler as a Phenomenon and as a Satire on Hegelian Philosophy and the Present Age --; Addendum I. The Dialectical Relations: the Universal, the Single Individual, the Special Individual --; Addendum II. The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle --; Supplement --; Key to References --; Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler --; Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler --; Selections from Adler's Writings --; Editorial Appendix --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliographical Note --; Index --; Advisory Board
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400832392; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400832392
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

Kierkegaard was driven to write The Book on Adler after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P. Adler, claimed to have experienced a revelation in which Christ dictated a new doctrine. Like many others, Kierkegaard was intrigued by Adler--but for different reasons than most. Over the eight years during which Kierkegaard worked on the manuscript, the phenomenon of Adler became a concern secondary to the larger question of authority. Kierkegaard revised the manuscript many times, and published a segment of it as "The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle" in Two Ethical-Religious Essays, but did not publish the work as a whole before his death. The latest integral version of The Book on Adler is included here, along with excerpts from the earlier drafts and a sampling of writing by Adler himself.