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

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.

Table of Contents

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