Kierkegaard's Writings, XXIV:
The Book on Adler
Søren Kierkegaard
Edited and translated, with introduction and notes, by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Historical Introduction
	The Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon
	Editor's Preface	3
	Introduction	7
Ch. I	The 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-Fact	28
Ch. II	A Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age	36
Ch. 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	51
	Appendix to Chapter III	88
Ch. IV	A Psychological View of Adler as a Phenomenon and as a Satire on Hegelian Philosophy and the Present Age	91
Addendum I	The Dialectical Relations: the Universal, the Single Individual, the Special Individual	143
Addendum II	The Difference between a Genius and an Apostle	173
	Supplement	189
	Key to References	190
	Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler	192
	Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler	211
	Selections from Adler's Writings	339
	Editorial Appendix	349
	Acknowledgments	351
	Notes	353
	Bibliographical Note	383
	Index	385

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