El libro sobre Adler: Un ciclo de ensayos ético-religiosos

Kierkegaard's Writings #24

by Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dedicó los diez últimos años de su vida a trabajar en un texto sobre la figura del pastor Adolph P. Adler, que en agosto de 1845 había sido apartado del sacerdocio tras afirmar haber tenido una revelación. Kierkegaard ve en Adler un fenómeno que refleja la confusión de su época sobre lo que significa ser cristiano desde la relación entre el individuo y la autoridad. Con este motivo, elabora una síntesis de su pensamiento ético-religioso que solo verá la luz póstumamente y que hasta ahora era desconocida para el lector español.

«El libro sobre Adler es una de las joyas oscuras de la historia de la psicología filosófica […] semejante a los descensos a las profundidades de la psique humana que llevaron a cabo Dostoievski y Nietzsche». George Steiner

Genres: Philosophy, Religion, Classics

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1848

About the author

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Church of Denmark. Much of his work deals with religious themes such as faith in God, the institution of the Christian Church, Christian ethics and theology, and the emotions and feelings of individuals when faced with life choices. His early work was written under various pseudonyms who present their own distinctive viewpoints in a complex dialogue.

Kierkegaard left the task of discovering the meaning of his works to the reader, because "the task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted". Scholars have interpreted Kierkegaard variously as an existentialist, neo-orthodoxist, postmodernist, humanist, and individualist.

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought.

Reviews

[Roberto Agra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy buen resumen del pensamiento del danés junto con mucha pasivo-agresividad contra Adler

[Ben · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although one cannot deny offended people talent and daimonic inspiration, they ordinarily nevertheless tend to be somewhat obtuse on the whole -- that is, they really do not know quite how one is to go about the matter in order to do harm. They attack Christianity, but they place themselves outside it, and for that very reason they do no harm. No, the offended person must try to come to grips with Christianity in a completely different way, try to push up like a mole in the middle of Christendom. Suppose that Feuerbach, instead of attacking Christianity, had gone about it more craftily. Suppose that he had laid out his plan in daimonic silence and then stepped forward and announced that he had had a revelation, and now suppose that he, like a criminal who is able to stick to a lie, had stuck unshakably to this story while he also sagaciously had found out all the weak sides of orthodoxy, which he nevertheless by no means attacked but only, with a certain innocent naivete, knew how to hold up to the light. Suppose that he had done it so well that no one could get wise to his slyness -- he would have brought orthodoxy into the worst predicament.

[Forsythe · Rating 5 out of 5]

The case for (but mostly against) Magister Adler, yes, but mostly springboard for thoughts on writing (authorship), revelation, the age (and man) of movement, the extraordinary individual, the ethical as measuring-rod, silence (and, amidst it, inwardness), Christianity as history (the eighteen hundred years), the long and the short (fortuitous length), the apostle (grounded in authority) vs the genius (grounded in the self), dizziness (and discipline), Hegel, the Hegelian as country pastor, what it means to be born into Christendom (Christianity by accident). Interesting analogies used therein: constipation.

[dunya · Rating 3 out of 5]

what even is this