Table of Contents

Historical IntroductionThe Book on Adler: The Religious Confusion of the Present Age Illustrated by Magister Adler as a PhenomenonEditor's Preface3Introduction7Ch. IThe 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-Fact28Ch. IIA Revelation in the Situation of the Present Age36Ch. IIIAdler'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 Him51Appendix to Chapter III88Ch. IVA Psychological View of Adler as a Phenomenon and as a Satire on Hegelian Philosophy and the Present Age91Addendum IThe Dialectical Relations: the Universal, the Single Individual, the Special Individual143Addendum IIThe Difference between a Genius and an Apostle173Supplement189Key to References190Initial Pages of Versions of The Book on Adler192Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Book on Adler211Selections from Adler's Writings339Editorial Appendix349Acknowledgments351Notes353Bibliographical Note383Index385

About the Author

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.

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"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