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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.
Contents
Historical IntroductionThe Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a PhenomenonEditor's Preface3Introduction7Ch. IThe 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-Fact28Ch. IIA Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age36Ch. IIIAdler'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 Him51Appendix to Chapter III88Ch. IVA Psychological View of Adler as a Phenomenon and as a Satire on Hegelian Philosophy and the Present Age91Addendum IThe Dialectical Relations: the Universal, the Single Individual, the Special Individual143Addendum IIThe Difference between a Genius and an Apostle173Supplement189Key to References190Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler192Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler211Selections from Adler's Writings339Editorial Appendix349Acknowledgments351Notes353Bibliographical Note383Index385
