The book on Adler
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 publishe…
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- Full title :The book on Adler / Soren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong.
Summary
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 Ess.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400832392, 140083239X
- oclc:ocn948030980
- LC Classification:B4376 .K384 2009
- Dewey Decimal:192.20383474
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; 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: THE COLLISION OF MAGISTER ADLER, AS A TEACHER IN THE STATE CHURCH, WITH THE ESTABLISHED ORDER; THE SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS A REVELATION-FACT; 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 AdlerSelections from Adler's Writings; EDITORIAL APPENDIX; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index.
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