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The Book on Adler

By Soren Kierkegaard

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780691140827, 0691032270
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
666 kB (681583 bytes)
Series
Kierkegaard's Writings #24
Pages
496\0
Time added
2023-08-19 18:19:23

Description

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.

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