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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 60Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) : 9 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691140827
  • 9781400832392
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 192.20383474
LOC classification:
  • B4376 .K384 2009
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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 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.

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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