Kierkegaard's writings, XXIV

• Verfasst von: Kierkegaard, Søren [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Kierkegaard's writings, XXIV
• Titelzusatz: The book on Adler
• Mitwirkende: Hong, Howard Vincent [HerausgeberIn] [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Mitwirkende: Hong, Edna [HerausgeberIn] [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Verf.angabe: by Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong
• Verlagsort: Princeton, New Jersey
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Jahr: 2009
• Jahr des Originals: 1998
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 402 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Kierkegaard's writings ; 24
• ISBN: 978-1-4008-3239-2
• ComputerInfo: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• DOI: doi:10.1515/9781400832392
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Authority.
• Sach-SW: Religion.
• Sach-SW: PHILOSOPHY / Religious
• K10plus-PPN: 87585995X
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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.

Abstract

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