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1924rif. 93894New 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
1998rif. 51525Stanford 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
1915rif. 566j2993Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company. Very Good No dust jacket as issued. Reprint. Hardcover. "Nietzsche's first book in the aphoristic style that would come to dominate his writings discussing a variety of concepts in short paragraphs or sayings. Highly influenced by Afrikan Spir's Thought and Reality and reacting against the pessimistic philosophy of Wagner and Schopenhauer." - Wikipedia. "This book is enlightening rather than a strict code; and it is also for that reason a little dark in that it tells us what we perhaps don't want to know about ourselves or at least admit. As a piece of intellectual capital it is invaluable." - online review by G.K. Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900 was a very influential German philosopher and writer. 1915 Reprint of the 1908 Kerr first American edition. First published in German in 1878 as Menschliches Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch für freie Geister. 4-182 p. Clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear to original light brown cloth ruled and lettered in black. A rare and tidy vintage example. 17.1 x 10.8cm; 16mo . 1915. Charles H. Kerr & Company hardcover
1920rif. 192127Munich: 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
1887rif. 927Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1887. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. First complete edition of one of Nietzsches most important texts! 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. 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. 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. 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 PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST E.W. Fritzsch hardcover
1878rif. 928Chemnitz: 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. 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. 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. Schmeitzner hardcover
1878rif. 952Chemnitz: Schmeitzner 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Nietzsches First Aphoristic Work and His Introduction of Perspectivism 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST Schmeitzner hardcover
1920rif. 022981Munchen 1920 Musarion Verlag Half-Leather
1946rif. 483421946. 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
1945rif. YQV-52In-12 (186 × 118 mm) de 284-[4] pp. ; broché, couverture imprimée.
1887rif. 1031"Gott ist tot!" God is dead! NIETZSCHE Friedrich. Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft "la gaya scienza". Neue Ausgabe mit einem Anhange: Lieder des Prinsen Vogelfrei The Gay Science. E.W. Fritzsch Leipzig 1887. 1 misbound half-title leaf = "Scherz List und Rache" TP III –XII = Vorrede 5 –350 1 leaf = Berichtigungen. First Edition Second Issue Definitive. Schaberg 51. BOUND WITH Jenseits von Gute und Bose Beyond Good and Evil Dritte Auflage C.G. Naumann Leipzig 1894. TP Half-title 3 - 5 = Vorrede 1 leaf = Inhalt Half-title 11 - 285 287 - 292 = Register 2 leaves = advertisements. Third Edition. Octavo. The Gay Science which is the final and culminating volume of Nietzsche's aphoristic workscontains 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 Nietzsche's first mention of the Uebermensch. This Neue Ausgabe consisted of the 788 unsold sheets from the first edition of 1882 with the addition of a new title page Nietzsche's 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. Nietzsche felt that the Vorrede to this and the other reissues of 1886/7 were among the best things that he ever wrote. Considered by most to be Nietzsche's most important philosophical work Beyond Good and Evil was the first of Nietzsche's "self-published" books. The work consists of nine interlocking chapters that delineate the profile and the task of the "free spirit" and the "philosopher of the future" and contains some of Nietzsche's most insightful and barbed attacks on previous philosophers as well as many of his most powerfully and elegantly formulated analyses. As perhaps nowhere else the Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil fulfilled his own criterion of literary greatness: "To say in one sentence what others have required a book to say –and then to say what they did not say as well!" By any standard Beyond Good and Evil is among the greatest books in Western Culture. It is difficult to imagine another in which one can find so much. Here for the first time Nietzsche proposes a "natural history of morals" and proposes that the revaluation of former values is the central task to be accomplished by the philosopher of the future –this indeed would be the primary task of his own final works. He begins: "If a person should regard even the effects of hatred envy covetousness and the lust to rule as conditions of life as factors which fundamentally and essentially must be present in the general economy of life and must therefore be further enhanced if life is to be further enhanced –he will suffer from such a view of things as from seasickness. And yet even this hypothesis is far from being the strangest and most painful in this immense and almost new domain of dangerous insights." CONDITION: Good or better in original quarter leather with marbled boards. Much wear to spine but well preserved. Scuffing to covers. Spine with original handscripted label. Contemporary annotations to front and rear endpapers with scattered marginalia throughout all in pencil and could be erased but left preserved. First half-title is mis-bound ahead of the main title page. E.W. Fritzsch and C.G. Naumann hardcover
rif. alb9573b40146646682Nietzsche Fr. Collection of Works. (Vol. 1-9-Sekt) In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Nitsshe Fr. Sobranie sochineniy. (T. 1-9-Komplekt) Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Moscow Warehouse at D. P. Efimov's bookstore. Type: Chicherin Blvd. 1900-1903. So Zaratustra used to say. Vol. 2. Beyond Good and Evil. Vol. 3. The Darkness of Idols. Vol. 4. The Origin of Tragedy. Vol. 5. Human Too Human. Vol. 6. Man as He Is. Vol. 7. The Wanderer and His Shadow. Vol. 8. Morning Dawn. Vol. 9. Merry Science. Rare the Complete Collection. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb9573b40146646682
rif. alb8f25e6044c267e6dNietzsche Fr. Complete collection of works. In four volumes: Vol. 1 2 3 9 Complete set In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Nitsshe Fr. Polnoe sobranie sochineniy. V chetyrekh tomakh: Tt. 1 2 3 9 Polnyy komplekt Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Translation under the general editorship of Prof. F. Zielinsky S. Frank G. Rachinsky and J. Berman: Moscow Book Publishing House A.A. Levenson Press Association 1909-1912 LVI 412 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb8f25e6044c267e6d
rif. alb5a3081f22af19b06Nietzsche F. Collection of Works. In Ten Volumes In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Nitsshe F. Sobranie sochineniy. V desyati tomakh Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Moscow: The Edition of the Bookseller M.V. Klyukin 1900-1903 Vol. 1. This is what Zaratustra said. A symbolic poem. 1902. 360 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb5a3081f22af19b06
rif. 39286In-8 (198 x 132 mm), plein cartonnage ivoire à la Bradel, pièce de titre de veau orange, tranches rouges (reliure légèrement postérieure), xiv, (2), 182, (2) pages. Leipzig, C. G. Naumann 1887.
rif. albae6451e62bca46c9Nietzsche F. A collection of works in ten volumes. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Nitsshe F. Sobranie sochineniy v desyati tomakh. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).M. Publication of the bookseller M.V. Klyukin 1901-1903. Zaratustra used to say. Symbolic poem. 1902. 359 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbae6451e62bca46c9
1878rif. 170976Chemnitz: 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
1878rif. 182922Chemnitz: 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
rif. 25790Leipzig, Verlag von C.G. Naumann, (1888.) Two works in one volume. (8), 144 pp.; (8), 57, (1) pp. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth, spine lettered gilt, marbled boards, corners. First work: Schaberg 56. First edition of the "Twilight of the Gods" and written during an incredibly productive six month period before Nietzsche's collapse in Turin. It was also the last book published during his lifetime. The title refers to an image in the preface: idols "are touched with a hammer and a tuning fork to determine whether they are hollow", which is of course a sarcastic allusion to Wagner, both personally and as a symbol of the German spirit. Nietzsche had 1,000 copies of this work privately printed. Originally to be called "A Psychologist at Leisure," Nietzsche changed the title at the suggestion of his friend, Gast and the book was released a few weeks after Nietzsche collapsed in Turin. The "Idols" that Nietzsche singles out here are those of the philosophers and the moralists. The Preface clearly states that the work at hand is to be "the revaluation of all values". Socrates and Christianity are particular targets although modern Germany and other contemporary ideas are also taken to task in the normally acerbic style of the author. (This book also contains some of Nietzsche's most frequently quoted phrases beginning with Aphorism #8: "What does not kill me only makes me stronger".)Second work: Schaberg 54.First edition, second issue. The book was published on 22 September 1888. Five hundred copies were printed, but 500 additional copies were printed at this time and falsely marked as second edition by the addition of "Zweite Auflage" in the middle of the ornamental rule and the deletion of the publication date. The true second edition of a 1000 copies was printed in October of 1891.The book is a critique of Richard Wagner and the announcement of Nietzsche's rupture with the German artist, who had involved himself too much, in Nietzsche's eyes, in the Völkisch movement and antisemitism. His music is no longer represented as a possible "philosophical affect," and Wagner is ironically compared to Georges Bizet. However, Wagner is presented by Nietzsche as only a particular symptom of a broader "disease" which is affecting Europe, that is nihilism. The book shows Nietzsche as a capable music-critic, and provides the setting for some of his further reflections on the nature of art and on its relationship to the future health of humanity.This work is in sharp contrast with the second part of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, wherein he praised Wagner as fulfilling a need in music to go beyond the analytic and dispassionate understanding of music. Nietzsche also praised Wagner effusively in his essay 'Wagner at Bayreuth' (part of the Untimely Meditations), but his disillusion with Wagner the composer and the man was first seen in his 1878 work Human, All Too Human. One of the last works that Nietzsche wrote returned to the critical theme of The Case of Wagner. In Nietzsche contra Wagner, Nietzsche pulled together excerpts from his works to show that he consistently had the same thoughts about music, only that he had misapplied them to Wagner in the earliest works. - First and last leaves a bit foxed, some scattered annotations in blue pencil and lead pencil.Provenance: from the library of A. Diepenbrock, with his signature on the first free endpaper (and date Jan. 1889) and second title-page (with the date Sept. 1888.) Alphons Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist. Although he showed musical ability he studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his doctorate cum laude in 1888 with a dissertation in Latin on the life of Seneca. The same year he became a teacher, a job which he held until 1894, when he retired from that position and decided to devote himself to music. As a composer, he had been completely self-taught from an early age. He created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy's music. His predominantly vocal output is distinguished by the high quality of the texts used. Apart from the Ancient Greek dramatists and Latin liturgy, he was inspired by, among others, Goethe, Novalis, Vondel, Brentano, Hölderlin, Heine, Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Verlaine. As a conductor, he performed many contemporary works, including Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony (at the Concertgebouw) as well as works by Fauré and Debussy. Throughout his life, Diepenbrock continued his interests in the wider cultural sphere, remaining a classics tutor and publishing works on literature, painting, politics, philosophy and religion. Indeed during his lifetime his musical skills were often overlooked. Nonetheless, Diepenbrock was very much a respected figure within musical circles. He counted amongst his friends Mahler, Richard Strauss and Arnold Schoenberg.
1889rif. 61353Leipzig, 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.
1889rif. 61353Leipzig 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. 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 hardcover
1887rif. 17423Leipzig, Naumann, 1887. XIV S., 1 Bl., 182 S., 1 Bl. 8°. HLwd. der Zeit (kl. restaurierte Läsuren). [5 Warenabbildungen]
1920rif. 192049Munich: 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
1872rif. 174288Berlin & 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
1870rif. 170977Basel: 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
