Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxiv (ebook)

Argumento de Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxiv (ebook)

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.

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 (1913-2007) was a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal0Historical Introduction The Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon Editor's Preface 3 Introduction 7 Ch. 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 28 Ch. II A Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age 36 Ch. 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 51 Appendix to Chapter III 88 Ch. IV 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 143 Addendum II The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle 173 Supplement 189 Key to References 190 Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler 192 Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler 211 Selections from Adler's Writings 339 Editorial Appendix 349 Acknowledgments 351 Notes 353 Bibliographical Note 383 Index 385