Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] December 1842. Adolph Peter Adler, pastor of the small Danish communities of Hasle and Rutsker, on the distant island of Bornholm, shocks the society of his time by declaring that he has received a Revelation directly from Jesus Christ on the problem of the origin of evil and that he has transcribed it under dictation in his Sermons. Is Pastor Adler really an Apostle, as he claims to be, or are his writings the exclusive fruit of his poetic genius? The Official Church will quickly decide on the removal of the pastor from his position, but in Copenhagen there will still be a long discussion about what will soon be defined as The Adler Case. Kierkegaard dedicates the volume you have in your hands to the themes of Authority and Revelation, of Genius and of the Apostle, starting from the story of that shepherd who was also his fellow student in his youth. A ponderous and demanding work, certainly the most painful of his production and the one with the most turbulent editorial history. Eight long years of reflection, three manuscript drafts, countless notes and rewritings for a work that was never definitively finished and which the author refused to publish. Only in 1872 did Barfod gather and select the material of what until then was no more than a "ghost book", by then too late to be able to enjoy the same luck he would have had when the name of Adolph Peter Adler was on everyone's lips in Copenhagen . Even today, The Great Book, as the author himself defines it in the pages of the Diary, surprisingly remains among the most unknown and least commented texts in the entire Kierkegaardian bibliography. Fifty years after the first and very limited Italian edition, this one recovers, in addition to the translation by Cornelio Fabro, the apparatus containing notes, notes and prefaces not included in the manuscript versions, as well as extensive passages taken from Adlerian writings. A collection of fundamental texts to be able to read in Kierkegaard the emergence and evolution of themes and questions, relating above all to the relationship of the Individual with the Official Church, which will become increasingly present until they become crucial in the last phase of his production.
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Preface. The "Book about Adler". If the religious sphere contains within itself the ethical requirement |
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Original language | Italian |
Title of host publication | Il Libro su Adler |
Pages | 7-22 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Keywords
- Kierkegaard
- Autorità
- Rivelazione
- Adolph Adler