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18724535Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1872. First edition. <p>First edition in exceptionally rare original publisher's cloth binding. This copy previously handled by Bill Schaberg: "When I wrote The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography 1995 I had never even heard of these cloth copies of Nietzsche's first book put out by his publisher Fritzsch. So it was quite a shock when someone offered this copy to me. It turns out that Fritzsch's contemporary advertisements for the book mention a cloth binding so this is not just a figment of some bookseller's imagination." This Nietzsche's first book is a compelling argument for the necessity for art in life. It is fueled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner to whom this work was dedicated.</p>. Hardcover. IN THE EXCEPTIONALY RARE PUBLISHER'S BINDING. <p>First edition in exceptionally rare original publisher's cloth binding. This copy previously handled by Bill Schaberg: "When I wrote The Nietzsche Canon: A Publication History and Bibliography The University of Chicago Press 1995 I had never even heard of these cloth copies of Nietzsche's first book put out by his publisher Fritzsch. So it was quite a shock when someone offered this copy to me. It turns out that Fritzsch's contemporary advertisements for the book mention a cloth binding so this is not just a figment of some bookseller's imagination."</p> <br /> <p>This Nietzsche's first book is a compelling argument for the necessity for art in life. It is fueled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner to whom this work was dedicated.</p> <br /> <p>Nietzsche argues that the tragedy of Ancient Greece was the highest form of art due to its mixture of both Apollonian and Dionysian elements into one seamless whole allowing the spectator to experience the full spectrum of the human condition. The Dionysian element was to be found in the music of the chorus while the Apollonian element was found in the dialogue which gave a concrete symbolism that balanced the Dionysiac revelry. Basically the Apollonian spirit was able to give form to the abstract Dionysian.</p> <br /> <p>In contrast to the typical Enlightenment view of ancient Greek culture as noble simple elegant and grandiose Nietzsche believed the Greeks were grappling with pessimism. The universe in which we live is the product of great interacting forces; but we neither observe nor know these as such. What we put together as our conceptions of the world Nietzsche thought never actually addresses the underlying realities. It is human destiny to be controlled by the darkest universal realities and at the same time to live life in a human-dreamt world of illusions.</p> <br /> <p>The issue then or so Nietzsche thought is how to experience and understand the Dionysian side of life without destroying the obvious values of the Apollonian side. It is not healthy for an individual or for a whole society to become entirely absorbed in the rule of one or the other. The soundest healthiest foothold is in both. Nietzsche's theory of Athenian tragic drama suggests exactly how before Euripides and Socrates the Dionysian and Apollonian elements of life were artistically woven together. The Greek spectator became healthy through direct experience of the Dionysian within the protective spirit-of-tragedy on the Apollonian stage.</p> <br /> <p>The Birth of Tragedy was the best selling book that Nietzsche ever published; still it did not sell quickly. The Wagners had feared that there might not be an audience for the work and their apprehensions proved to be well-founded. A prediction that Nietzsche had once made to Rohde proved true: "The philologists won't read it on account of the music the musicians won't read it on account of the philology and the philosophers won't read it on account of the music and the philology." False hopes for brisk sales plagued the first half-year. In mid-April Nietzsche was writing home that "a new edition of my book will be needed soon"34 but the necessity of printing a second edition did not materialize quickly. By 20 July Fritzsch complained that there had been "no results" even though he had "sent out a fair number of copies." Schaberg The Nietzsche Canon p. 27</p> <br/> <br/> 8vo 216 x 138 mm pp. i-iii iv 1 2-143 144. Original publisher's dark-rust binding with an ornate blind-stamped design on the front and rear covers and the spine lettered and filleted in gilt. There is some light browning to the edges of the page margins and light foxing throughout. Rear hinge with a 10 cm split. Entirely unrestored copy in its original state. An extremely well preserved copy of this unusual and all-but-unobtainable original publisher's cloth binding. / Hardcover. E.W. Fritzsch unknown
1873165812Leipzig: E. W. Fritzsch Schopenhauer: Schloss-Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner 1873; 1874; 1874. Nietzsche in the culture war First editions of the first three of Nietzsche's four individually published Untimely Meditations bound together in a contemporary binding and unusual thus. Nietzsche originally conceived a series of 13 essays on the condition of contemporary European culture and its leading figures specifically German. The first published was an attack on David Strauss. The composer Richard Wagner who had taken an immediate dislike to Strauss's latest book Der alte und der neue Glaube The Old and the New Faith suggested Nietzsche publish the work with his own publisher E. W. Fritzsch. Nietzsche remained with Fritzsch for the publication of the second essay the only one not centred on a specific person but instead on the proper understanding and use of history. Finding payment slow Nietzsche switched publishers to Ernst Schmeitzner for the third essay which describes how Schopenhauer's genius despite his admitted pessimism might bring about a renaissance in German culture. The fourth work in the series Richard Wagner in Bayreuth was published in 1876 and is not present here - the collection was likely bound before its publication. The planning and publication of the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen series was quite haphazard and affected by Fritzsch's financial difficulties slow sales and Nietzsche's loss of enthusiasm for the project. No more of the planned thirteen works appeared after the Wagner essay though an uncompleted fifth essay was published posthumously. Schmeitzner negotiated to buy the remainders of the first two works from Fritzsch but was disappointed to find them in poor condition so that complete sets of all four essays which were all originally issued in wrappers are very rarely found bound together. Three works bound in a single vol. octavo 225 x 139 mm. Contemporary red morocco spine lettered in gilt red mottled sides black speckled edges. Errata of first work bound following p. 6 leaves in sig. 5 of same bound out of sequence. Spine a little darkened and trivial wear to tips contents with light foxing more pronounced towards rear some pencilled underlining and pencilled annotations to terminal endpapers a few leaves opened a little roughly in third work. In very good condition. Schaberg Nietzsche Canon 23 25 & 26. unknown
190364533Paris: Mercure de France 1903. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1903 13 x 18.50 cm 2 volumes brochés La volonté de puissance. Essai d'une transmutation de toutes les valeurs Will to power Mercure de France Paris 1903 13x185cm 2 volume in original wrappers. First edition of the French translation one of 12 numbered copies on Hollande paper the only grand papier deluxe copies. One small trace of folding not serious to lower cover of the second volume endpapers very slightly and partially shaded. Nice and rare copy with untrimmed edges. Mercure de France unknown
18671001<p>1867-73 First Edition of Seven of Nietzsche's Philological Articles Accepted as his Dissertation Requirement – Qualifying Him to Become a Professor at Age 24</p><p>Rheinisches Museum für Philologie Edited by F.G. Welcker & F. Ritschl 1867-68 F.G. Welcker F. Ritschl A. Klette 1869 Friedrich Ritschl & Anton Klette 1870 & 1873 Johann David Sauerländer Frankfurt am Main 1867-1870 1873. 1867 Volume: Facing TP TP V-XVI 1-648; 1868 Volume: Facing TP TP V-XVI 1-704; 1869 Volume: Facing TP TP V-XVI 1-640; 1870 Volume: Facing TP TP V-XV 1-640; 1873 Volume: Facing TP TP V-XV 1-640; First Edition of seven of the eight philological articles written by Nietzsche Schaberg 9-14 & 16.</p><p>Friedrich Nietzsche began his publication career at the age of twenty-two while he was a student of philology at the University of Leipzig. In Nietzsche's day to be a philologist meant that one studied ancient languages texts history philosophy art and even archeology in an attempt to recapture and understand the meaning of Greece and Rome. Nietzsche was a prize student first at the University of Bonn and then in Leipzig and as such he published several papers in scholarly journals… All but one of these essays appeared in the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie which was—and remains today—a respected journal in the field of classical studies. The single exception was The So-Called Contest of Homer and Hesiod which appeared in Volume I of the Acta Societatis Philologae a compendium organized in 1870 by Ritschl that published just four volumes before its demise in 1875.</p><p>Four of the philological articles were written in German and four in Latin. At least one of the articles On the Sources of Diogenes Laertius was originally composed in German and then translated into the required Latin. The German articles were signed at the end either as 'Friedrich Nietzsche.' or 'F. Nietzsche.' In the Latin articles the author was credited on the first page of each as 'Fridericus Nietzsche'. .</p><p>In later years Nietzsche was understandably dismissive of his philological works. He once wrote to Georg Brandes that "there are of course also Philologica by me but that need not concern either of us anymore." Certainly this was true in 1888 but twenty years earlier when these articles were published they were of major personal importance. Nietzsche's mentor Ritschl used the first four articles as justification for the recommendation that resulted in Nietzsche's spectacularly early appointment to Basel as professor at the age of twenty-four. Ritschl then went further and allowed the articles to be accepted as the dissertation requirement for Nietzsche's doctorate which was conferred without oral examination on 23 March 1869…</p><p>All of his philological works were published prior to the appearance of The Birth of Tragedy January 1872 except for the last article the second half of The Florentine Manuscript concerning Homer and Hesiod dated August of 1872 which appeared in February of 1873. It was the last piece of traditional classical scholarship that Nietzsche published.</p><p>Schaberg The Nietzsche Canon pp. 8-14</p><p>CONDITION: Very good or better in contemporary boards leather spines with gilt lettering. Two different styles of binding. Light edgewear. Three volumes in quarter leather with black boards and marbled endpapers; two volumes in quarter leather with marbled boards. See photos.</p> Johann David Sauerländer hardcover
18911004<p>NIETZSCHE Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra Vierter und letzter Theil C. G. Naumann Leipzig 1891. Frontispiece portrait of Nietzsche TP Quote page 5-135 half title 3-21 23 = Inhalt Octavo. First Edition. Schaberg 58.</p><p>The famous first public printing of Nietzsche's notorious conclusion to Zarathustra. Although printed in 1890 and dated 1891 this book did not see public release until March of 1892 due to legal arguments between Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth and the publisher. Elisabeth was worried that the books would all be confiscated as "obscene" –and therefore negotiated until she received a contract from Naumann that protected her against this possibility. This edition –which is cited in Printing and the Mind of Man as the first edition ignoring the private printing of 1885 –is rare in any condition. When copies do make their rare appearances on the market they almost always come bound with the original three books 1883-1884 or more commonly bound with copies of the three books as re-issued in 1886. Containing the first edition printing of Nietzsche's poems: Dionysian Dithyrambs.</p><p>CONDITION: Contemporary quarter vellum with marbled boards little rubbed minor bumping to extremities. Slight browning little foxing and small marginal tears to few leaves at the end short tear to bottom gutter of title. - From the collection of archeologist and art-historian Botho Graef 1857-1917 known for his friendship with artists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in addition to his facilitation of the Jena art-collection. His handwritten dedication is addressed to German playwright and poet 'Ernst' Hardt 1876-1947.</p> C. G. Naumann hardcover
1880923Chemnitz: Schmeitzner 1880. First Edition. Wraps. Near fine. The Third and Final Part of Human all too Human <br /> <br />NIETZSCHE Friedrich. Der Wanderer und Sein Schatten The Wanderer and His Shadow. Schmeitzner Chemnitz 1880. 1 blank leaf TP 3-185 186 = Berichtigungen Octavo. First Edition First Issue in original wrappers. Schaberg 32. <br /> <br />Written as a second sequel to Human All Too Human The Wanderer and his Shadow was first published in the year following Nietzsches departure from academia. Perhaps the title here is somewhat autobiographical reflecting Nietzsche and his shadow heading off into the wilderness of the unknown. Wanderer contains a series of aphorisms and was published on December 20 1890. It was received enthusiastically by Nietzsches friends though failed to sell more than 200 copies. Yet it was viewed by Nietzsche himself as a triumph. In a letter to Schmeitzner written on December 18 Nietzsche remarks: "Der vollendete 'Wanderer' ist mir fast etwas Unglaubliches. Die ganze 'Menschlichkeit' mit den 2 Anhängen ist aus der Zeit der bittersten und anhaltendsten Schmerzen - und scheint mir doch ein Ding voller Gesundheit. Dies ist mein Triumph." The completed 'Wanderer' is to me something almost unbelievable. The entire 'humanity' with the 2 supplements is from a time of the most bitter and continual pains - and yet seems to me to be a thing full of health. This is my triumphThe Nietzsche Chronicle. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Very good to near fine in original front and rear wrappers. Spine restored with graphics to match the original. Interior crisp and bright. Housed in cloth-backed clamshell box. A gorgeous copy of this final installment of the Menschlisches three-book series. <br/><br/> Schmeitzner paperback
1872174288Berlin & Leipzig: Gebrüder Borntraeger & E. W. Fritsch 1872-73. Wagner Nietzsche and the battle for antiquity First editions of three key entries in the controversy over Nietzsche's first book a dispute which damaged his academic reputation confirmed his early Wagnerian allegiance and made his name in the German cultural scene. Both authors had known Nietzsche in his youth yet each offered a completely different analysis of his capacities methods and intentions. Die Geburt der Tragodie The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche's first book outlined an analysis of ancient tragedy that "fell outside of every known convention in classical studies" Porter p. 74. For Nietzsche Socratic philosophy had killed Greek tragedy and Wagner was the man to revive it in modern Germany. For many this exposed a dangerous rift between Western tradition and the subversive followers of Schopenhauer and Wagner. Objections were first expressed by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff 1848-1931 in the Zukunftsphilologie Future Philology. Although Wilamowitz had been a fellow student with Nietzsche his response was a vitriolic demolition of Nietzsche's style logic and research. Wagner defended Nietzsche but his argument unwittingly bolstered Wilamowitz's claim that the Geburt was not intended for the academic establishment. Nietzsche persuaded Erwin Rohde 1845-1898 - another old schoolmate - to conduct his defence. The Afterphilologie False Philology which was shaped by suggestions from Nietzsche answers Wilamowitz in kind: exposing his own lack of academic rigour and painting him as an immature arriviste. Wilamowitz responded in the Zweites Stück Part II reiterating his disgust with Nietzsche's abandonment of Western philosophy. The Zukunftsphilologie captured the zeitgeist and recent academics "have remained broadly behind him" Silk & Stern p. 156. Wilamowitz became the most celebrated Greek scholar of his age while Rohde wrote a study of the Greek Pysche 1890-4 which remains prominent in modern classical studies. The three papers are: 1 WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF Ulrich von. Zukunftsphilologie! Eine erwidrung. Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger 1872. Pp. 32. 2 ROHDE Erwin. Afterphilologie. Zur Beleuchtung des von dem Dr. phil Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff herausgegeben Pamphlets: "Zukunftsphilologie!" Sendschreiben eines Philologen an Richard Wagner. Leipzig: E. W. Fritsch 1872. Pp. 48. 3 WILAMOWITZ-MOELLENDORFF Ulrich von. Zukunftsphilologie! Zweites Stück. Eine erwidrung au die rettungsversuche für Fr. Nietzsches "geburt der tragödie". Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger 1873. Pp. 24. 3 works octavo. Original orange or green printed wrappers. Spines repaired. Light toning chipping and creasing to wrappers minor browning and foxing to contents: very good copies in the fragile original wrappers. James L. Porter "'Don't Quote Me on That!': Wilamowitz Contra Nietzsche in 1872 and 1873" The Journal of Nietzsche Studies no. 42 2011; M. S. Silk & J. P. Stern Nietzsche on Tragedy 2016. unknown
1870170977Basel: Carl Schultze's Universitaetsbuchdruckerei 1870. Nietzsche's early work on Diogenes Laertius First edition of this scarce early article privately printed in a run of 100 copies. The Gratulationsschrift was written shortly after Nietzsche had gained tenure at the University of Basel at the age of 24. He began his academic career as a philologist and the Gratulationsschrift outlines a philological study of Diogenes Laertius the shadowy author of the Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers. Nietzsche dedicates the work to F. D. Gerlach a colleague at Basel and copies were distributed at the ceremony marking Gerlach's retirement despite the fact Gerlach had opposed Nietzsche's appointment. Some copies were issued with a half-page cancel either bound between pages 2 and 3 or pasted to the lower half of page 3 that is not present here. No priority has been identified. Provenance: Hermann Türck 1856-1933 a philosopher and Nietzsche scholar who wrote Fr. Nietzsche und seine philosophischen Irrwege in 1891 a psychological study of the man and his later works. Türck's large printed bookplate is on the front pastedown. Quarto 218 x 193 mm pp. iv 36 8. Recent sprinkled grey boards printed paper label to spine. Minor browning and foxing to outer leaves: a very good copy indeed. Schaberg 18. hardcover
1920192049Munich: Musarion 1920-29. Nietzsche's complete works in the deluxe vellum First complete collected edition of Nietzsche's works number 138 of 185 sets in vellum from a total edition of 1600. Arranged chronologically with notes indexes and an introduction by Richardo Oehler this was the first edition to claim completeness. 23 vols large octavo 238 x 165 mm. With 4 photographic portraits and 7 facsimiles in vol. 21. Original vellum twin green leather labels to spines covers with two double-rule gilt borders top edges gilt. Light soiling to vellum a few covers a little bowed contents with some toning: an excellent set. Ziegenfuss 2 216. hardcover
188960004Leipzig C.G. Naumann 1889. 8vo. Bound with the original printed wrappers in a nice near contemporary brown half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Lovely marbled end-papers. A bit of light soiling and brownspotting to wrappers which are otherwise very well preserved. A few leaves with some very light brownspotting and a couple of leaves with small closed tears to blank inner margin far from affecting text. Overall very nice. With the engraved book plate of Adolf Fischer to inside of front board. 8 144 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition - with the scarce original wrappers - of the epitome of Nietzsche's final project -a re-valuation of all values "Eine Umwerthung aller Werthe" -his hugely interesting "declaration of war" preface p. 4: "Diese Schrift ist eine grosse Kriegserklärung" which was written during his last productive year just before his big breakdown in Turin. "Götzen-Dämmerung" "The Twilight of the Idols" arguably constitutes the culmination of the production of this giant of philosophy who turned mad after having finished it.Early in 1889 Nietzsche began to exhibit signs of serious mental illness; in Turin he finally broke down and was brought back to Basel by his friends. "The Twilight of the Idols" was released merely a few weeks after this collapse and Nietzsche never wrote again.Nietzsche had 1.000 copies of the work privately printed. The work is considered one of his most popular and it is here that we find some of the most frequently quoted passages from the works of Nietzsche e.g. "What does not kill me only makes me stronger" p.2.: "Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker".The Twilight was meant as an introduction to or summary of Nietzshe's philosophy and as such it is one of his most interesting works. It is written almost as in a rage of fever - it took him no more than a week to write it - and he regarded it a world-changing magnum opus. As he states at the end of the preface: "Turin am 30. September 1888 am Tage da das erste Buch der Umwerthung aller Werthe zu ende kam." i.e. "Turin on September 30. 1888 on the day that the first book on the re-valuation of all value came to an end.". This highly polemical work makes clear reference to Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" and it presents us with a sharp critique of the most influential philosophers in history e.g. Kant and Plato and of Christianity in general but also the likes of Rousseau Hugo Renan Mill Darwin Dante etc. are attacked as the causes of cultural decadence in Europe. Giants like Caesar Napoleon Dostojevski Goethe and Thukydides are considered representatives of the opposite.The mental collapse of the author may not come as a surprise to anyone reading the work.Of the 1.000 copies 659 still remained unsold by October 1893.Twilight of the Idols: Schaberg: 56a </em> hardcover
188961353Leipzig C.G. Naumann 1889. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary red half cloth binding with red marbled paper over boards and single gilt lines. Gilt lettering and a single gilt ornamentation to spine. Lovely patterned irdiscent end-papers in blue with white flowers. Boards slightly faded at top. Front hinge a bit soiled. Spine a bit discoloured and a bit worn at capitals. A few leaves with light scattered brownspotting but overall very clean and fresh. A few minor pencil marks on several pages and some faint brown spots on the final page. 8 144 pp. <br/><br/><em>First edition published in 1889 from Nietzsche's private press of the epitome of Nietzsche's final project -a re-valuation of all values "Eine Umwerthung aller Werthe" -his hugely interesting "declaration of war" preface p. 4: "Diese Schrift ist eine grosse Kriegserklärung" which was written during his last productive year just before his big breakdown in Turin. "Götzen-Dämmerung" "The Twilight of the Idols" arguably constitutes the culmination of the production of this giant of philosophy who turned mad after having finished it.Early in 1889 Nietzsche began to exhibit signs of serious mental illness; in Turin he finally broke down and was brought back to Basel by his friends. "The Twilight of the Idols" was released merely a few weeks after this collapse and Nietzsche never wrote again.Nietzsche had 1.000 copies of the work privately printed. The work is considered one of his most popular and it is here that we find some of the most frequently quoted passages from the works of Nietzsche e.g. "What does not kill me only makes me stronger" p.2.: "Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker".The Twilight was meant as an introduction to or summary of Nietzshe's philosophy and as such it is one of his most interesting works. It is written almost as in a rage of fever - it took him no more than a week to write it - and he regarded it a world-changing magnum opus. As he states at the end of the preface: "Turin am 30. September 1888 am Tage da das erste Buch der Umwerthung aller Werthe zu ende kam." i.e. "Turin on September 30. 1888 on the day that the first book on the re-valuation of all value came to an end.". This highly polemical work makes clear reference to Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" and it presents us with a sharp critique of the most influential philosophers in history e.g. Kant and Plato and of Christianity in general but also the likes of Rousseau Hugo Renan Mill Darwin Dante etc. are attacked as the causes of cultural decadence in Europe. Giants like Caesar Napoleon Dostojevski Goethe and Thukydides are considered representatives of the opposite.The mental collapse of the author may not come as a surprise to anyone reading the work.Of the 1.000 copies 659 still remained unsold by October 1893.Twilight of the Idols: Schaberg: 56a </em> hardcover
1878170976Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner 1878. The defining work of Nietzsche's positivist period First edition of Nietzsche's first major polemical and aphoristic work marking his transition "from the philologist and cultural critic he had been into the kind of philosopher and writer he came to be" Schacht p. vii. The work which is translated as Human All Too Human embraces positivist reason in opposition to the metaphysical idealism of Schopenhauer and Wagner. For Nietzsche a naturally grounded reason was the only viable option to secure the ultimate enhancement of human life. The Menschliches reflects on religion art and morality and its incisive attacks on conventional pieties foreshadowed the thought of Nietzsche's mature period. It includes early expressions of many major Nietzschian concepts including the "will to power" and the rejection of Christian morality. Menschliches expresses Nietzsche's final direct disillusionment with Wagner of whom he had been a devoted admirer. He even claimed to have begun writing the work in response to the first Bayreuth production of the Ring cycle. On receiving his copy Wagner remarked that "he would be doing the author a favor for which the latter would one day thank him if he did not read it" quoted in Schaberg p. 64. Octavo 216 x 143 mm pp. viii 377 3. Contemporary half roan spine lettered and ruled in gilt marbled sides yellow coated endpapers edges marbled. Without the small cancel slip to p. 290. Late 19th-century bookplate of the author Gerhard Ouckama Knoop 1861-1913 to front free endpaper and his ink signature to head of half-title. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate of one Dr Roman Wolf to front pastedown. Contemporary purple ink bookseller's stamp to title page. Extremities restored. Light bumping and rubbing minor browning foxing and chipping to otherwise clean contents: a very good copy. Schaberg 29. Richard Schacht "Introduction" in Human All Too Human. A Book for Free Spirits 1996. unknown
1878182922Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner 1878. The defining work of Nietzsche's positivist period First edition of Nietzsche's first major polemical and aphoristic work marking his transition "from the philologist and cultural critic he had been into the kind of philosopher and writer he came to be" Schacht p. vii. The work which is translated as Human All Too Human embraces positivist reason in opposition to the metaphysical idealism of Schopenhauer and Wagner. For Nietzsche a naturally grounded reason was the only viable option to secure the ultimate enhancement of human life. The Menschliches reflects on religion art and morality and its incisive attacks on conventional pieties foreshadowed the thought of Nietzsche's mature period. It includes early expressions of many major Nietzschian concepts including the "will to power" and the rejection of Christian morality. Menschliches expresses Nietzsche's final direct disillusionment with Wagner of whom he had been a devoted admirer. He even claimed to have begun writing the work in response to the first Bayreuth production of the Ring cycle. On receiving his copy Wagner remarked that "he would be doing the author a favor for which the latter would one day thank him if he did not read it" quoted in Schaberg p. 64. Octavo 215 x 143 mm pp. viii 377 3. Contemporary half roan rebacked with original spine laid down spine lettered ruled and decorated in gilt marbled sides yellow coated endpapers edges marbled yellow silk bookmarker. With the small cancel slip to p. 290. Light bumping and rubbing minor browning and foxing to contents damp stain to foot of endpapers and preliminary leaves: a very good copy. Schaberg 29. Richard Schacht "Introduction" in Human All Too Human. A Book for Free Spirits 1996. unknown
1946483421946. Fine. 1946 21.70 x 11.50 cm 7 feuillets foliotés Autograph manuscript by the author 14 pages in octavo published in issue no. 12 December 1945January 1946 of L'Arche. A complete recto-verso manuscript in a densely written hand with numerous deletions corrections and additions. Essay published on the occasion of the release of Father du Lubacs Le Drame de lhumanisme athée. After the war the place of Friedrich Nietzschealongside the Marquis de Sade and Søren Kierkegaardin Maurice Blanchots thought reflects the decisive influence of Georges Bataille and the philosophers he held in highest regard. From this point on Blanchot devoted many texts to these figures and Du côté de Nietzsche stands as a key testimony of that engagement. The very title of his forthcoming collection La Part du feu to be published in 1949 including this article in a slightly revised form is itself a Bataillean reference. For Blanchot Nietzsches power through his use of language and style lies less in his most explicit and oft-commented theses than in the crucible of a more fluid and sometimes self-contradictory discourse: « L'influence de Nietzsche ne se réduit pas aux formes extérieures qu'elle a prises ; c'est probablement au contraire ce qui de Nietzsche a échappé à toute transmission manifeste cette part de lui étrangère aux influences directes qui a exercé l'influence la plus profonde. » This idea would remain central to Blanchots reading of the German philosopher. Nietzsches inconsistency and ambiguity are embodied in the theme of the death of God central to his work: « En aucune façon le thème de la Mort de Dieu ne peut être l'expression d'un savoir définitif ou l'esquisse d'une proposition stable » Blanchot observes. And he famously adds: « Se contredire est le mouvement essentiel d'une telle pensée. » In LEntretien infini 1969 Blanchot would once again revisit the Nietzschean question of the death of God where it meets that of the unity of man. A remarkable text by Maurice Blanchot on Friedrich Nietzsche illustrating the profound influence of Georges Bataille on his thought. unknown
1887927Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1887. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. First complete edition of one of Nietzsches most important texts! <br /> <br /> <br />NIETZSCHE Friedrich. Die Frohliche Wissenschaft "la gaya scienza". Neue Ausgabe mit einem Anhange: Lieder des Prinsen Vogelfrei The Gay Science . E.W. Fritzsch Leipzig 1887. III XII = Vorrede 1 leaf = Half-title 5 350 1 leaf = Berichtigungen; Octavo. First Edition Second Issue Definitive. Schaberg 51. <br /> <br /> <br />A must have for any Nietzsche collection. This Neue Ausgabe consisted of the 788 unsold sheets from the first edition of 1882 with the addition of a new title page Nietzsches new 10-page Vorrede Preface 2 new half-title pages and a new 5th book "Wir Furchtlosen" We Fearless Ones. Thus 75 new pages along with fourteen pages of poetry appear here for the first time. While the first edition appeared in 1882 it was incomplete. This is truly the first edition of the complete and definitive text of what is today read as The Gay Science. Nietzsche felt that the Vorrede to this and the other reissues of 1886/7 were among the best things that he ever wrote. <br /> <br />The Gay Science which is the final and culminating volume of Nietzsches aphoristic works contains the first instance of his famous statement Gott ist tot! God is Dead first in section 108 then more elaborately detailed in the Parable of the Madman in section 125 and for a third time in section 343. It also contains the first appearance of the doctrine of the "Eternal Return of the Same" which plays such a prominent role in Zarathustra and even includes the Nietzsches first mention of the Uebermensch. <br /> <br /> <br />CONDITION: Very good in a quarter leather contemporary binding with marbled boards gilt lettering to the spine. Some wear to spine leather. Minor rubbing to marbling on front cover. Small bookseller sticker to inside corner of rear free endpaper <br /> <br /> <br/><br/>PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST E.W. Fritzsch hardcover
1878928Chemnitz: Schmeitzner 1878. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. NIETZSCHE Friedrich Die Geburt der Tragödie The Birth of Tragedy. Schmeitzner Chemnitz 1878. TP III-IV 1-144 Octavo. The famous Second Edition First Issue of Nietzsche's first book. Schaberg 30. <br /> <br />The publication history of Nietzsche s Birth of Tragedy is about as complicated as any. The 143-page first edition appeared in 1872 published by E.W. Fritzsch. Shortly after its release Fritzsch printed a second edition that included Nietzsche s corrections extending the text to 144 pages. This was completed by March of 1874 yet because of some conflicts between Nietzsche and Fritzsch and the financial difficulties Fritzsch was experiencing the 750 copies of this 144-page second edition were never available for sale. They sat in a warehouse for 4 years until Schmeitzner Nietzsche s new publisher acquired the copies. Schmeitzner affixed his own label on top of the original publisher s information and made the books available for sale. Very few sold no more than 175. In 1886 the unsold copies of both the 143-page first edition and the 144-page second edition ended up back with the original publisher Fritzsch who added Nietzsche s new preface along with a new title page for the "Neue Ausgabe" edition the definitive edition if the 144-page copy!. Thus fewer than 175 copies in this state 144-pages with the original title page and Schmeitzner label extant. A rare find and a must-have for any Nietzsche collection to be complete.Printing and the Mind of Man notes "Nietzsche's principle work during the Wagner period 1868-1878 was Die Geburt der Tragodie aus dem Geist der Musik 1872. In this he adopted a tragico-pessimistic conceptions of Greek civilization like Burckhardt but contrary to Grote. This started his career as a critic of modern civilization based on disgust with imperial Germany Christianity bourgeois ethics and so on." PMM 224. In this his first book Nietzsche theorized that Greek tragedy was built upon a wedding of two principles that he associated with the deities Apollo and Dionysus. The Apollonian principle is the principle of order static beauty and clear boundaries. The Dionysian principle in contrast is the principle of frenzy excess and the demolition of boundaries. It is in the subtle interaction of these disparate principles that the greatness of Greek tragedy resides and by extension in which the creative spirit still finds its proper soil. The book ended with a long section devoted to Richard Wagner and the importance of his music. When first released it met with only limited success. Despite Nietzsche's eventual near contempt for the book - from the perspective naturally of his later unequalled masterpieces of German prose - it must be considered along with Aristotle and Hegel among the greatest contributions to the understanding of Greek tragedy and in fact to the Greek way of life in general. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Very Good in contemporary half-calf and marbled boards. Light wear. Gilt lettering. Light foxing. Former owners name neatly inscribed to upper corner of front free endpaper. As issued with Schmeitzner's label canceling out Fritzsch's imprint. A very good copy of a very rare book. <br/><br/> Schmeitzner hardcover
1878952Chemnitz: Schmeitzner 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Nietzsches First Aphoristic Work and His Introduction of Perspectivism <br /> <br />NIETZSCHE Friedrich. Menschliches Allzumenschliches. Ein Buch für freie Geister Human all too Human. A Book for Free Spirits. Schmeitzner Chemnitz 1878. 1 blank leaf half title TP 1 leaf = Vorrede 1 leaf = Inhalt 1 leaf = half title 3 377 378= Printers information 1 leaf = publisher's advertisements 1 blank leaf. Octavo. First Edition First Issue Schaberg 29. <br /> <br /> <br />Includes initial half title before the full title page and the eere correction cut and pasted by Schmeitzner over menon a non-word to create meere sea on p290 aphorism 431 and advertisements. <br /> <br />Only 489 copies of this first edition first issue as the remaining 511 of the original 1000 first edition copies were sold to E. W. Fritzsch in 1886 for use in a new edition with new title page and without the ads. Thus this copy is extremely rare in any state. <br /> <br />This is the first book by Nietzsche where he is listed simply as Friedrich Nietzsche rather than as prof. In fact Human All Too Human constituted such a radical departure in style and content for Nietzsche that he first proposed to his publisher that it be released anonymously or with a pseudonym. Schmeitzner however would not allow it. <br /> <br />Reluctant to construct a philosophical system and sensitive to the importance of style in philosophic writing Nietzsche composed these works as a series of several hundred aphorisms a departure from his style up to this point. Much of the work is devoted to what one might now call "psychoanalytical" insights into the nature of common human experience and the origins of our human valuations. At the time serious inquiry into such things as the nature of dreams the meaning of pity or the phenomenon of laughter had no place in the field of philosophy. <br /> <br />Human All Too Human also contains Nietzsches reflections upon cultural and psychological phenomena in reference to individuals' organic and physiological constitutions. The idea of power sporadically appears as an explanatory principle but Nietzsche tends at this time to invoke hedonistic considerations of pleasure and pain in his explanations of cultural and psychological phenomena. It is here too that Nietzsche's famous epistemological "perspectivism" is first broached: the view that "truths" are nothing more than interpretations of reality formed from different perspectives and more or less successful in their struggle against competing "truths." <br /> <br />Like the four books to follow the present work is addressed to the "free spirits of Europe." It was the present work that finally divided Nietzsche from his greatest friend Richard Wagner more and more in Nietzsche's mind motivated by only the most simplistic greed for power and betraying the promise of his art. <br /> <br />CONDITION: Very good in somewhat later boards with cloth spine. Origiinal front wrapper affixed to front board slightly browned. Internally bright and clean with a couple pages of some spotting along edges. One page of publisher's ads present but seeminly repaired along fore edge . Sunning to rear board. <br/><br/>PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Schmeitzner hardcover
1920192127Munich: Musarion 1920-29. Nietzsche's complete works First complete collected edition of Nietzsche's works in the original German number 221 of 1300 sets in half calf from a total edition of 1600. Arranged chronologically with an introduction by Richardo Oehler notes and indexes this was the first edition to claim completeness and has only been surpassed by the Colli and Montinari edition still in progress. 23 vols large octavo. Original black half calf spines lettered in gilt blue paper-covered sides top edges gilt. With 4 photographic portraits and 7 facsimiles in volume 21. Contemporary bookplate of the Bauer family designed by Otto Hupp to front pastedowns. Rubbed and worn: a good set. Ziegenfuss 2 216. unknown
200051530Stanford CA: Stanford University Press. New. 2000. Paperback. 0804741719 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 386 pages Stanford University Press paperback
192493894New York: The Macmillan Company. As New. 1924. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - - Numbered copy of a limited edition The Macmillan Company hardcover
199851525Stanford University CA: Stanford University Press. New. 1998. Paperback. 0804734038 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 428 pages. Stanford University Press paperback
199951529Stanford University CA: Stanford University Press. New. 1999. Paperback. 0804736480 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 515 pages. Stanford University Press paperback
189843879Leipzig Naumann 1898. Small 8vo. Uncut in the original green printed wrappers. Spine with a bit of wear and minor wear to extremities. A very fine and clean copy in the scarce original wrappers. A 4-line presentation-inscription by Friedrich Jodl to front free end-paper dated "23.8.98". <br/><br/><em>The rare first edition of Nietzsche's poems and maxims the first complete collection of his poetry which furthermore constitutes the first appearance of all nine properly corrected "Dionysian Dithyrambs" in one volume.This one of 1.000 copies printed of the first run without "Second Edition" on the title-page as the other 1.000 copies of the first edition had. According to Elizabeth Förster-Nietzsche Nietzsche's sister who has assembled the present collection "this collection of poems and maxims shows the entire poetic development of my brother over a period of 30 years. It begins at a time when the earliest stuttering poetical expression has been overcome and ends with the highest rising of the poetic spirit who in order to find words can now only speak in dithyrambs." own translation from the Introduction p. XIII. Numerous of the poems have never been printed before and many are printed from the original manuscripts which Elizabeth had in her possession.Though Nietzsche is primarily understood and remembered as one of the greatest philosophers of all times his poems occupy a central place in his literary production and many of them e.g. the Dithyrambs are intimately linked with the philosophy for which he is so famous today. Furthermore the present volume underlines the popular modern view of Nietzsche as the not only philosophical but also literary and artistic genious. The first edition of the work is difficult to find and is rarely seen for sale.THE PRESENT COPY HAS BELONGED TO FREIDRICH JODL 1849-1914 the famous German philosopher and contemporary of Nietzsche and bears his signature as well as a 4-line dated presentation-inscription to front free end-paper. Jodl ranks as one of the most significant representatives of German expressionism and is still remembered for his original ontological works with their constant focus on empiricism as the only true strand of philosophy. He has also written a number of important works within the history of philosophy and ethics psychology and aesthetics which for decades counted as standard works and he is among the first to develop the intellectual environment that ultimately led to among many other things the founding of the Vienna Circle. His main task was to develop and spread a purely naturalistic ethics free of any religious or metaphysical elements and he is considered a modern "Enlightenment philosopher" whose consistent empiricism well-founded philosophical ideas optimistic theories of culture ethics the value of life & the progress of man inspired many later thinkers and furthermore helped promote important political and social ideas such as free popular education etc. His main works which are now standard works within ethics and psychology and which were printed over and over again are "Geschichte der Ethik als philosophischer Wissenschaft" in which he presents man's cultural development as the process of liberation from religious and metaphysical ideas and the change from a theocentric to an anthropocentric foundation of ethics. This work is followed up by his purely epirically founded "Lehrbuch der Psychologie" which grounds the same ideas psychologically. After having been Privatdzent in Munich he was named professor of philosophy at the German University in Prague and in 1896 he accepted a professorship of philosophy at the University of Vienna. He was greatly successful in Vienna and was considered the most prominent liberal professor here whose numerous lectures and articles against the reigning "Ultramintanismus" and the clerical influence in schools and universities found great resonance with scholars and students. He had a huge number of followers not only at the university but also in the public as a political figure as well. He is partly to thank for the emergence of an intellectual climate in Vienna in the 20th century which later led to Neopositivism and the founding of the Vienna Circle."We need no other mediator between us and nature except our understanding and a courageous will nor any mystery behind nature to console us for her; we are alone with nature and we feel secure because we possess intellect and she behaves according to laws" Jodl Vom wahren und vom falschen Idealismus p. 40. </em> unknown
2019129546Stanford University Press. New. 2019. Paperback. 1503608727 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- -- with a bonus offer--; 7.4 X 4.8 X 1.3 inches; 616 pages . Stanford University Press paperback
1898886<p>Petersburg: New Journal of Foreign Literature 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Russian Translation of Nietzsche <br /><br />NIETZSCHE Friedrich Tak govoril Zaratustra Also Sprach Zarathustra New Journal of Foreign Literature St Petersburg 1898. Blank leaf TP 3 - 5 = translators introduction 6 - 90 1 leaf = advertisements 1 blank leaf thin octavo. First Russian translation of Nietzsches Also Sprach Zarathustra translated by Yu Antonovsky. <br /><br />This is the very first translation of Zarathustra in Russian written by Yu Antonovsky in 1898 just really a few months before a second bilingual edition translated by Nani. With so much censorship in Russia any translation was really an art form creatively trying to communicate Nietzsches or any philosophers! ideas into a voice acceptable to the heightened sensitivities of the authorities under both Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II. Hence the incomplete translations of both Antonovsky in 1898 and Nani in 1899. This first Russian translation based on the 10th German edition comprises all but part IV. Perhaps there were contents of part IV that ruffled the feathers of the censors; perhaps Antonovsky actually relied upon the 1886 German edition which only included parts I - III as part IV was not published publicly in Germany until 1892. <br /><br />Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of Nietzsche's most famous works and Nietzsche regarded it as among his most significant. Thoroughly studied and re-studied by scholars throughout the 20th century the character of Zarathustra stands as a figure marking the end of Modernity by some i.e. Heidegger the beginning of Post-Modernity by others i.e. Derrida; the text a personal soteriological narrative of Nietzsches own self-overcoming and a parable for others towards the same transformation. Though Thus Spoke Zarathustra attempts to destroy and replace the Judeo-Christian world-view Nietzsches style borrows heavily from the Old and New Testament. Nietzsche also adopts myriad metaphors invoking animals earth air fire water celestial bodies plants all in the service of describing the spiritual transformation of Zarathustra a solitary reflective exceedingly strong-willed sage-like laughing and dancing voice of self-mastery who accompanied by a proud sharp-eyed eagle and a wise snake believed in a mode of being beyond the common human condition but without the need to posit a transcendent other world. Nietzsche refers to this higher mode of being as superhuman übermenschlich one that embraces the doctrine of eternal recurrence a doctrine for only the strongest who can love life in its entirety who embrace their suffering and would only again will it to be thus! <br /><br />CONDITION: Very good in original quarter cloth with purple boards. Light edgewear. Pages 11 - 14 with small erasure mark that wore through the paper. A few scattered pencil marks otherwise an excellent well-preserved copy all in original condition. <br /><br /><br /></p> New Journal of Foreign Literature hardcover
