Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) spent the last ten years of his life working on a text on the figure of Pastor Adolph P. Adler, who in August 1845 had been removed from the priesthood after claiming to have had a revelation. Kierkegaard sees in Adler a phenomenon that reflects the confusion of his time about what it means to be a Christian from the relationship between the individual and authority. For this reason, he elaborates a synthesis of his ethical-religious thought that will only see the light posthumously.
"The book on Adler is one of the dark jewels in the history of philosophical psychology […] akin to the descents into the depths of the human psyche by Dostoevsky and Nietzsche." George steiner
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- "Babelia advances excerpts from the volume that translates the cycle of ethical and religious essays that the Danish thinker wrote during ...read more