The Book on Adler
by Kierkegaard, Soren; Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna HatlestadFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-21
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary
Kierkegaard was driven to writeThe Book on Adlerafter 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" inTwo Ethical-Religious Essays, but did not publish the work as a whole before his death. The latest integral version ofThe Book on Adleris included here, along with excerpts from the earlier drafts and a sampling of writing by Adler himself.
Author Biography
Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of "Kierkegaard's Writings". Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.
Table of Contents
| Historical Introduction | |
| The Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon Editor's Preface | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| 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 | p. 28 |
| A Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age | p. 36 |
| 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 51 Appendix to Chapter III | p. 88 |
| A Psychological View of Adler as a Phenomenon and as a Satire on Hegelian Philosophy and the Present Age 91 Addendum I The Dialectical Relations: the Universal, the Single Individual, the Special Individual | p. 143 |
| Addendum II The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle | p. 173 |
| Supplement 189 Key to References | p. 190 |
| Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler | p. 192 |
| Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler | p. 211 |
| Selections from Adler's Writings | p. 339 |
| Editorial Appendix | p. 349 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 351 |
| Notes | p. 353 |
| Bibliographical Note | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 385 |
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