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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ISBN
9781400832392
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2015
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Princeton University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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