The Book on Adler

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1998

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: The Book on Adler
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XXIV
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Adler, Adolph Peter, 1817-1869
• ISBNs: 9781400832392, 0691032270, 0691140820, 9780691032276, 9780691140827, 140083239X
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS24
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:08:50Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.