The Book on Adler

Book by Søren Kierkegaard

The Book on Adler

Hardcover edition

Author| Søren Kierkegaard
Original title| Bogen om Adler
Language| Danish
Series| Second authorship (Signed/Direct)
Genre| Philosophy

Publication date

| Written c. 1847, published posthumously in 1872
Publication place| Denmark
Pages| ~450

The Book on Adler (subtitle: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age, Illustrated by Magister Adler as a Phenomenon, A Mimical Monograph) is a work by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, written during his second authorship, and was published posthumously in 1872. The work is partly about pastor Adolph Peter Adler who claimed to have received a revelation. After some questionable acts, Adler was subsequently dismissed from his pastor duties. Adler later claimed it was work of genius, and not of revelation.

The rest of the work focuses on the concept of authority and how it relates to Adler's situation. Kierkegaard was against claims of received revelation without due consideration.

## Reception

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The American philosopher Stanley Cavell helped to re-introduce the book to modern philosophical readers in his collection Must We Mean What We Say? (1969).[1]

Johannes Hohlenberg, a student of Kierkegaard's writings, said of the work: "The book is extraordinarily revealing, because it shows the working of Kierkegaard's mind better than any of the other books. If we want to get an idea of what qualitative dialectics has to say when turned upon a very definite question, we ought to study the book about Adler".[2]

## References

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1. ^ Journal of Religion, vol. 57, 1977
2. ^ Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Søren Kierkegaard

* Influence and reception
* Philosophy
* Theology

Works|

| 1841–1846|

* On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
* Either/Or
* De omnibus dubitandum est
* Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1843
* Repetition
* Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1843
* Fear and Trembling
* Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843
* Two Upbuilding Discourses, 1844
* Three Upbuilding Discourses, 1844
* Philosophical Fragments
* Prefaces
* The Concept of Anxiety
* Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1844
* Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
* Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
* Stages on Life's Way
* Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments
* Two Ages: A Literary Review

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1847–1854|

* Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits
* Works of Love
* Christian Discourses
* The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress
* The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air
* Two Minor Ethical-Religious Essays
* The Sickness unto Death
* Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays
* Practice in Christianity
* The Book on Adler
* For Self-Examination

Posthumous|

* The Point of View of My Work as an Author
* Judge for Yourselves!
* The Journals
* Writing Sampler

Ideas|

* Angst
* Anguish
* Authenticity
* Double-mindedness
* Indirect communication
* Infinite qualitative distinction
* Knight of faith
* Leap of faith
* Levelling
* Present age
* Ressentiment
* Rotation method
* Despair

People|

* Regine Olsen
* Peter Kierkegaard
* Hans Lassen Martensen
* Jacob Peter Mynster
* J. L. Heiberg
* Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd
* Adolph Peter Adler

Related topics|

* Danish Golden Age
* Søren Kierkegaard Research Center
* Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library
* Prayers of Kierkegaard
* Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
* Nytorv 27 (birthplace)
* Rosenborggade 7–9
* Skindergade 38 (last home)
* Statue of Søren Kierkegaard
* The Central European Institute Søren Kierkegaard

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