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

Paper | 2009 | $40.00 / £27.95
Cloth | 1998 | $95.00 / £65.00
424 pp. | 6 x 9 | 9 halftones

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Introduction [PDF]

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.

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong (1913-2007) was a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

Reviews:

"These new translations are excellent."--Choice

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal

Table of Contents

Series:

• Kierkegaard's Writings
  Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, Series Editors

Subject Areas:

• Philosophy
• Religion

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