Kierkégaard

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Enten - Eller. Et Livs=Fragment udgivet af Victor Eremita. Anden Udgave. Første Deel indeholdende A.’s Papirer Anden Deel indeholdende B.’s Papirer Breve til A. - A TRULY MAGNIFICENT COPY SPLENDIDLY PRESERVED IN COMPLETELY ORIGINAL CONDITION

1849réf. 62135Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1849. 8vo. XIV 2 320; 4 250 pp final blank. Both volumes in one – the original blue cardboard binding “hollanderet bind” with the original printed paper title-label preserved in its entirety to the spine. Slight loss to the paper to upper capital and to lower front hinge but amazingly well preserved fresh and crisp. Completely uncut 235 x 145 cm. making it ab. 15 1 cm larger than other well margined copies. Some brownspotting as always mostly quite light. Old owner’s name to inside of front board. Housed in a beautiful marbled paper box with a richly gilt red Morocco spine. The gilding is in the style of Kierkegaard’s most lavishly decorated full calf bindings and with the title in gilt Gothic lettering. The box is signed “Anker Kysters Efterf. And the gilding by Hagel Olsen. Front board with the gilt super ex libris of the previous owner. A truly magnificent copy of the second issue of Either-Or truly splendidly preserved in completely original condition. The spines of the original Kierkegaard cardboard bindings are always just thin paper directly glued on the block making them extremely fragile especially on the thicker volumes as Enten-Eller and Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift. If one finds these original bindings the spines are almost always more or less disintegrated and the original paper-labels are hardly ever preserved. Here we not only have an extremely well-preserved copy with very little of the paper missing of an original binding on the bulkiest Kierkegaard-title there is with the original printed paper title-label preserved in its entirety we have the second issue of Either-Or in its completely original condition bound in one volume as evidently it came from the publishers. This is an extreme rarity! Over the decades we have been able to locate two copies of the first edition of Either-Or in the original bindings but we have never come across a copy of the seminally important second issue in the original binding. This is possibly a unique preservation. Kierkegaard’s magnum opus Either-Or is considered the foundational work of existentialism and doubtlessly the most famous work by the greatest Scandinavian philosopher of all times who "is now generally considered to be however eccentric one of the most important Christian philosophers" PMM 314. Kierkegaard's monumental magnum opus seminally influenced later as well as contemporary philosophy and ranks as one of the most important works of philosophy of modern times. Either-Or is the earliest of Kierkegaard’s major works and the work with which he begins his pseudonymous authorship. Kierkegaard’s pseudonymity is an entire subject unto its own. The various cover names he uses play a significant role in his way of communicating and are essential to the understanding of his philosophical and religious messages. And it all properly begins here with his groundbreaking magnum opus. Conjuring up two distinctive figures with diverging beliefs and modes of life – the aesthetic “A” of Part One and the ethical B note that this is the first “pseudonym” that Kierkegaard uses in his earliest articles – no. I above/Judge Vilhelm of Part Two Kierkegaard presents us with the most basic reflections on the search for a meaningful existence seen from two completely different philosophical views. This masterpiece of duality explores the foundational conflict between the ethical and the aesthetical providing us along the way with the now so famous contemplations on music Mozart drama boredom pleasures virtues and probably most famously seduction and rejection – The Seducer’s Diary. It is primarily Judge Vilhelm from Part Two of Either-Or that has bestowed upon Kierkegaard the reputation as the Father of Existentialism. His emphasis on taking ownership of oneself and the importance of making choices has made him the first personification of Existentialism and the idea that one does not passively develop into the self that he or she should be or ought to become. Kierkegaard went to great lengths to ensure that the public would not know the identity of the author was of Either-Or. He even had the draft of the work done by several hands so that employees at the printer’s would also be deceived. Despite his efforts however it did not take long for the public to guess that Kierkegaard had written this astounding work. But Kierkegaard himself kept up the façade and did not accept authorship until several years later. Nothing Kierkegaard did was left to chance which his carefully chosen pseudonyms also reflect. This also spills over in his presentation-inscriptions which follow as strict a pattern as the pseudonyms themselves – he never signed himself the author if his Christian name was not listed as the author on the title-page. And seeing that he had not accepted authorship of Either-Or and is not mentioned by name anywhere on the title-page also not as the editor nor publisher as with the other pseudonymous works he was not able to give away copies of his magnum opus which is why no presentation-copy of the first edition exists. The appearance of the second edition of this monumental work was naturally carefully planned. Either-Or first appeared in 1843 and due to the great demand for the work which had originally only been printed in ca 525 copies it had quickly been sold out; but Kierkegaard refused to have it reprinted. In 1849 finally he decided to let it appear again in a textually unchanged version. When the second edition appeared recte second issue Kierkegaard had meanwhile owned up to the authorship of Either-Or. He had done so in 1846 in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to The Philosophical Fragments own translation: “For the sake of manners and etiquette I hereby acknowledge what can hardly in reality be of interest to anybody to know that I am as one says the author of Either-Or Victor Eremita Copenhagen in February 1843.”. Now finally Kierkegaard could give away his magnum opus! In his Papers from 1849 Kierkegaard states own translation: “The poets here at home each received a copy of Either-Or. I thought it my duty; and now I was able to do it; because now one cannot reasonably claim that a conspiracy is made concerning the book. -because the book is now old and its crisis over. Of course they were given the copy from Victor Eremita.” Pap. X1A 402. Naturally because “as little as I in Either-Or is the Seductor or the Assessor as little am I the publisher Victor Eremita exactly as little; he is a poetically-real subjective thinker as he is also found in “in vino veritas.” “ the postscript to the Postscript 1846 But he only sent few copies to very choice people fewer than he did most of his other works and only three copies have been identified to Henrik Hertz Christian Winther and Hans Christian Andersen. Three further copies in gift-bindings corresponding to these have been identified but in these copies the leaf with the presentation-inscription has also been torn out. He must have given away yet another copy – one presumably not being on vellum-paper as according to his own notes he had asked the printers for six copies on vellum paper see Pap. Vol. X part five p. 203. - making the total known albeit not all identified number of copies seven. “Two copies in a binding corresponding to Hertz’s copy have been traced but in both the front free end-paper has been torn out. It leads one to think that the completely unusual presentation inscription signed by Victor Eremita! for the immediate posterity has been of such a curious nature that it has tempted autograph hunters on several occasions.” Tekstspejle p. 97 translated from Danish. “The other book of which the recipients stand out is the second edition of Either-Or which appeared in May 1849. The first edition from 1843 had been sold out for several years but Kierkegaard had refused to have it reprinted. In our context we must remember that in 1843 he was unable to send gift copies of the first edition… When in 1843 he lets Either-Or be reprinted in textually unaltered form he has meanwhile 1846 admitted to authorship of the work. But the wording on the title-pages of the two leaves does not allow him to sign the dedication “from the Author” or “from the publisher” or the like.” Tekstspejle p. 96 translated from Danish. Either-Or is now not only the title of Kierkegaard’s most famous and widely read work it is also a phrase that summarizes much of the thinking for which he is best known and a cornerstone of what we now characterize as Existentialism. The first edition caused a sensation. The second issue termed “edition” although it is textually unaltered is not only the first edition of the work to appear after Kierkegaard had acknowledged authorship of it and thus also confirmed being one and the same with his most famous pseudonym it is also the first of Kierkegaard’s works to appear in a second edition or issue. The second edition of the work is thus also of the utmost importance and is one of the only important second editions of any of Kierkegaard’s works. PMM: 314 Himmelstrup 21 hardcover

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Begrebet Angest. En simpel psychologisk=paapegende Overveielse i Retning af det dogmatiske Problem om Arvesynden. Af Vigilius Hafniensis. - INTRODUCING "ANGST" IN PHILOSOPHY - A WONDERFUL COPY OF THE NOTORIOUSLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION

1844réf. 62260Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1844. 8vo. 8 184 pp. Lovely contemporary brown half calf with richly gilt spine. Light wear to hinges capitals and corners but overall very nice. First leaves with a bit of brownspotting but also internally unusually nice. An absolutely lovely copy in contemporary binding of this notoriously rare first edition. It is this classic of Existentialism that introduced the notion of “Angst” anxiety in philosophy. If Kierkegaard had written nothing else The Concept of Anxiety alone would have cemented him as one of the most important thinkers since antiquity. Nowhere else can one find an account of the concept of anxiety that comes close in importance to the one Kierkegaard gives in the present work. Using the Fall in the Garden of Eden as the foundation of the analysis he succeeds in describing what no-one has been able to before or since. “Long before modern psychology had entered puberty Kierkegaard unfurled advanced psychological concepts that in many senses were Freudian before Freud was around. In his primary psychological work The Concept of Anxiety he presents his detailed analyses of the relationship of anxiety to phenomena such as freedom sexuality original sin and history.” The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre. Being one of his most important and influential philosophical works The Concept of Anxiety is essential to all later existentialist writers. It was arguably this work that more than any other influenced Existentialism. The work bears a printed dedication to his beloved Poul Martin Møller one of the most beautiful and moving dedications in a philosophical work. Poul Martin Møller was his philosophy professor but more than that he was a moral mentor and one of a few people that Kierkegaard truly admired and cared for. Poul Martin Møller died in 1838 leaving almost no published works behind; he is the only person outside of Kierkegaard’s immediate family here including Regine who had been honoured with a printed dedication in any of his books. Apart from the title Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses the amputated Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses – without the two that were quickly sold out The Concept of Anxiety is by far the scarcest of Kierkegaard’s works – “The Concept of Anxiety was only printed in 250 copies!” Textspejle p. 58 translated from Danish which is ca half of most of the other works. It is interestingly the only one of the pseudonymous writings from the period that was reprinted despite the poor sales numbers of the first issue. In the summer of 1847 when Reitzel buys the remainders of the first issue a mere 165 copies of what is arguably now considered Kierkegaard’s most important work had been sold. The Concept of Anxiety is not only notorious for its pivotal importance in the history of philosophy and for essentially being the theoretical foundation of Existentialism; among Kierkegaard collectors and bibliophiles in general it is also notorious for its scarcity having been printed in a mere ca 250 copies. Furthermore like Fear and Trembling not a single presentation-copy of the work is known to exist. Himmelstrup 62. unknown

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Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt hensyn til Socrates. Af S. A. Kierkegaard. - A TRULY SPLENDID COMPLETELY FRESH COPY IN THE DAINTIEST OF THE GIFT-BINDINGS

1841réf. 62111Kjøbenhavn P.G. Philipsens Forlag 1841. 8vo. 8 350 pp. Gift binding of elaborately blindpatterned full cloth with single gilt line-border to boards and single gilt lines to spine. All edges gilt and printed on fine paper. The slightest touch of wear to corners and capitals but apart from that a complete fresh clean bright and tight copy. It looks like it has hardly been opened and seems like it just came from the binder. No markings of any kind. A truly splendid copy of the first edition of Kierkegaard's dissertation being a completely fresh copy in the daintiest of the gift-bindings presumably one of the two daintily bound copies that Kierkegaard had in his own collection nr. 2110-11 in the auction catalogue. The copy is with the Thesis and both the day and the time has been filled in by hand. Kierkegaard's dissertationconstitutes the culmination of three years’ intensive studies of Socrates and “the true point of departure for Kierkegaard’s authorship” Brandes. The work is of the utmost importance in Kierkegaard’s production not only as his first academic treatise but also because he here introduces several themes that will be addressed in his later works. Among these we find the question of defining the subject of cognition and self-knowledge of the subject. The maxim of “know thyself” will be a constant throughout his oeuvre as is the theory of knowledge acquisition that he deals with here. The dissertation is also noteworthy in referencing many of Hegel’s theses in a not negative context something that Kierkegaard himself would later note with disappointment and characterize as an early uncritical use of Hegel. Another noteworthy feature is the fact that the thesis is written in Danish which was unheard of at the time. Kierkegaard felt that Danish was a more suitable language for the thesis and hadto petition the King to be granted permission to submit it in Danish rather than Latin. This in itself poses as certain irony as the young Kierkegaard was known to express himself poorly and very long-winded in written Danish. One of Kierkegaard’s only true friends his school friend H.P. Holst recounts in 1869 how the two had a special school friendship and working relationship in which Kierkegaard wrote Latin compositions for Holst while Holst wrote Danish compositions for Kierkegaard who “expressed himself in a hopelessly Latin Danish crawling with participial phrases and extraordinarily complicatedsentences” Garff p. 139. When Kierkegaard in 1838 was ready to publish his famous piece on Hans Christian Andersen see nr. 1 & 2 above which was to appear in Heiberg’s journal Perseus Heiberg had agreed to publish the piece although he had some severe critical comments about the way and the form in which it was written – if it were to appear in Perseus Heiberg demanded at the very least the young Kierkegaard would have to submit it in a reasonably readable Danish. “Kierkegaard therefore turned to his old schoolmate H. P. Holst and asked him to do something with the languageâ€¦” Garff p. 139. From their school days Holst was well aware of the problem with Kierkegaard’s Danish and he recounts that over the summer he actually “translated” Kierkegaard’s article on Andersen into proper Danish. The oral defense was conducted in Latin however. The judges all agreed that the work submitted was both intelligent and noteworthy. But they were concerned about its style which was found to be both tasteless long-winded and idiosyncratic. We already here witness Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic approach to content and style that is so characteristic for all of his greatest works. Both stylistically and thematically Kierkegaard’s and especially a clear precursor for his magnum opus Either-Or that is to be his next publication. In many ways Either-Or is born directly out of The Concept of Irony and is the work that brings the theory of Irony to life. Part One of the dissertation concentrates on Socrates as interpreted by Xenophon Plato and Aristophanes with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard’s categories with examples from other philosophers. The work constitutes Kierkegaard’s attempt at understanding the role of irony in disrupting society and with Socrates understood through Kierkegaard we witness a whole new way of interpreting the world before us. Wisdom is not necessarily fixed and we ought to use Socratic ignorance to approach the world without the inherited bias of our cultures. With irony we will be able to embrace the not knowing. We need to question the world knowing we may not find an answer. The moment we stop questioning and just accept the easy answers we succumb to ignorance. We must use irony to laugh at ourselves in order to improve ourselves and to laugh at society in order to improve the world. The work was submitted to the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Copenhagen on June 3rd 1841. Kierkegaard had asked for his dissertation to be ready from the printer’s in ample time for him to defend it before the new semester commenced. This presumably because he had already planned his sojourn to Berlin to hear the master philosopher Schelling. On September 16th the book was issued and on September 29th the defense would take place. The entire defense including a two hour long lunch break took seven hours during which ”an unusually full auditorium” would listen to the official opponents F.C. Sibbern and P.O. Brøndsted as well as the seven “ex auditorio” opponents F.C. Petersen J.L. Heiberg P.C. Kierkegaard Fr. Beck F.P.J. Dahl H .J.Thue og C.F. Christens not to mention Kierkegaard himself. The work appeared in two states – one with the four pages of “Theses” for academics of the university whereas the copies without the theses were intended for ordinary sale. These sales copies also do not have “Udgivet for Magistergraden” and “theologisk Candidat” on the title-page. The first page of the theses always contains the day “XXIX” of September written in hand and sometimes the time “hora X” is also written in hand but not always. In all 11 presentation-copies of the dissertation are known and of these only one is signed that for Holst all the others merely state the title and name of the recipient. As is evident from the auction catalogue of his collection Kierkegaard had a number of copies of his dissertation in his possession when he died. Five of them were bound and two of them were “nit. M. Guldsnit” i.e. daintily bound and with gilt edges. These two copies were obviously meant as presentation-copies that he then never gave away. The gift copies of the dissertation were given two types of bindings both brownish cloth one type patterned the other one plain and some of them have gilt edges but most of the plain ones do not. There exist two copies on thick vellum paper – one being Kierkegaard’s own copy the other being the copy for H.C. Ørsted discoverer of electromagnetism and then principle of the University of Copenhagen. “As already implied two works of the authorship stand out in the sense that Kierkegaard sent his presentation-copies to a special circle of people: The dissertation from 1841.” Posselt Textspejle p. 91 translated from Danish. Most of the copies were given to former teachers and especially to people who due to leading positions personified the university. “For this circle of initiated we can now due to registered copies confirm that Kierkegaard gave copies with handwritten dedications to the headmaster of the University H.C. Ørsted printed on thick paper Kolderup-Rosenvinge and to J.L. Heiberg. It is granted that Sibbern Madvig and F.C. Petersen were also given the dissertation as a gift. but these copies are not known yet.” Posselt Textspejle pp. 93-94 translated fromDanish. N.b. We have since handled the copy given to Petersen and can thus confirm that it exists. Only a few months after Kierkegaard died 11th of November 1855 at the beginning of April 1856 his books were put up for sale. The sale was an event which created stir among scholars all over Denmark and the event drew large crowds. Everyone wanted a piece of the recently deceased legend and bidding was lively. The average price for the single items was nearly a rix-dollar a very high price for that time. As the old Herman Lynge wrote in a letter on the 22nd of May The Royal Library Recent Letters D. to the famous collector F.S. Bang “At the sale of Dr. Søren Kierkegaard’s books everything went at very high prices especially his own works which brought 2 or 3 times the published prices”.” Rohde Auction Catalogue p. LVIJ. Many authors philosophers and scholars were present in the auction room which was completely full as was the Royal Library who bought ca 80 lots. “Many of the books not only his own were paid for with much higher prices than in the book shops” In Morgenposten no. 99 30. April 1856 written by “P.” translated from Danish. "Some books were bought by libraries where they still are today others were bought by private people who sometimes wrote their names in the front of the books and thus indirectly stated that they came from Kierkegaard’s book collection… The edition of the auction catalogue 1967 registers all books from Kierkegaard’s book collection that it has hitherto been possible to identify – either in public or in private ownership… All in all nearly a couple of hundred volumes – i.e. ca. 10 % – of the Kierkegaardian book collection is said to be rediscovered…" Rohde. Thus today books from Kierkegaard’s library are of the utmost scarcity. Only very few are still possible to acquire and they hardly ever appear on the market. Himmelstrup 8 hardcover

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Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand. 3 Afdelinger. - "PURITY OF HEART IS TO WILL ONE THING"

1847réf. 63629Kjøbenhavn C.A. Reitzel 1847. 8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine. Upper capital worn and some wear along edges of boards. A bit of brownspotting. 4 155 64 140 pp. First edition of “The Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits” which constitutes the first work of Kierkegaard’s “second authorship”. Just as “Either-Or” the beginning of his “first authorship” the “Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits” was divided into three parts. When Kierkegaard published “Concluding Unscientific Postscript” in February 1846 he marked the end of the authorship that began with “Either-Or”. This was the “Concluding” work and not another word would be written. Kierkegaard would now live a withdrawn life as a village priest. One thing was the intention another however was fulfilling it. Already in April-May the same year Kierkegaard secretly began writing what would become En Leiligheds-Tale which was later to become the first part of Opbyggelige Taler i Forskjellig Aand which was published in March 1847. The second part was entitled Hvad man lærer af Lilierne paa Marken og af Himmelens Fugle. Tre Taler and the third Lidelsernes Evangelium. Christelige Taler. This three-part book would become a work of the utmost importance in Kierkegaard’s authorship. In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits the Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said “I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin with thatâ€¦” “Characterized by Kierkegaard as ethical-ironic Part One. offers a penetrating discussion of double-mindedness and ethical integrity. Part Two… humorously exposes an inverted qualitative difference between the learner and the teacher. In Part Three… the philosopher explores how joy can come out of suffering.” Hong-edition 1993. Kierkegaard had long been working towards creating a place for the concepts of guilt and sin in the conscience of the single individual. To do this he undertook an extraordinarily rich analysis of inner dividedness. His aim was for the reader to choose God in order to dispel of illusion and ambivalence. Kierkegaard here challenges those who say they are not guilty of anything he challenges the idea of reason and nature as being perfect as presented by Goethe and Hegel and he writes about the joy of following Christ. I It is in this magnificent work that we witness the three categories of the aesthetic the ethical and the religious being incorporated into the genre of edifying discourses. And it is also here that Kierkegaard introduces the phrase for which he – and the book – is so well known namely “Purity of heart is to will one thing”. Himmelstrup 101. hardcover

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Stadier paa Livets Vei. Studier af Forskjellige. Sammenbragte befordrede til Trykken og udgivne af Hilarius Bogbinder. - THE STAGES

1845réf. 63626Kjøbenhavn Copenhagen 1845. Lex8vo. Later brown half calf with gilt title to spine ca. 1940'ies. Corners with ligh wear. First leaves re-hinged. Title-page dusty and professsionally restored from verso with thin Chinese paper neatly closing a tear no loss. Some leaves evenly browned and last few leaves brownspotted otherwise only lighter occasional spotting. VIII 383 pp. First edition of one of Kierkegaard's main works "Stages on Life's Way" his pivotal sequal to his main work "Either-Or" in which he had presented the first two stages the aesthetic and the ethical. In Stages on Life’s Way he continues his work on these stages and moves on to present also the religious stage which occupies approximately two thirds of the work. The religious stage is that in which man attains a personal relationship with God and that in which man only truly begins to exist the aesthetic and ethical stages being inadequate. It is in this foundational work in the religious stage that Kierkegaard first properly describes what is now known as the “Leap of Faith” in fact a “leap to faith” namely the leap that involves willing and belief instead of reason and knowledge the leap that you take in order to connect to God and which requires that which Kierkegaard calls “the suspension of the ethical”. Undoubtedly among Kierkegaard’s most brilliant literary achievements “Stages on Life’s Way” is written in the form of different viewpoints of Kierkegaard’s many pseudonymous characters. We have both Hilarius Bookbinder who by chance has come into possession of the documents presented in the work and has prepared them for printing. We have the famous banquet scene which mirrors Plato’s Symposium described by William Afham and in which the three aesthetics participate: Johannes the Seducer Victor Eremita and Constatin Constantius. We have Judge William’s discourse in praise of marriage and we have the diary discovered by Frater Taciturnus of a young man who was deeply in love but felt compelled to break off his engagement. This story in form of a diary is the closest one comes to a description of Kierkegaard’s own love story his relationship to Regine. The diary describes an engagement that has lasted for six months; it alternates between the morning notes that recall the engagement and the midnight notes that put it all in perspective. The work closes with a letter to the reader from Taciturnus on the three “existence-spheres” represented by the three parts of the book. “Stages on Life’s Way” is one of Kierkegaard’s most important works. Not only does it sum up and explain some of the most important themes of Kierkegaard’s previous works utilizing the characters and pseudonymous authors of the earlier works to do so; it goes beyond these foundational themes introduces the religious stage and points to the further development of the central themes in Kierkegaard’s philosophy most of which are only fully developed in “Concluding Unscientific Postscript”. Written under a pseudonym and without Kierkegaard’s name appearing as publisher or indeed anything else he was unable to give away presentation-copies of the work. Thus not a single presentation-copy of the work exists. Himmelstrup 78. unknown

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Kjerlighedens Gjerninger. Nogle Christelige Overvejelser i Talers Form af S. Kierkegaard. Første & Anden Følge. Anden Udgave. - KIERKEGAARD'S OWN COPY

1847réf. 63612Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1847. 8vo. Original black glitted full cloth binding with gilt lines and gilt Gothic lettering to spine. Hinges and capitals neatly restored. All edges gilt and printed on fine vellum-paper. Internally completely fresh and clean. 2 224; 203 pp. Kierkegaard’s own copy of the second edition of Works of Love being one of the two copies Høedt bought at the auction after Kierkegaard’s death auction catalogue no. 2150 or 51 the one later belonging to Hans Wilhelm Saxild as also described in the auction catalogue. Apart from the second edition of Either-Or and a second issue of Training in Christianity this is the only second edition of any of his own works that Kierkegaard kept in his collection. No presentation-copies are known of the second edition of Works of Love explained by the fact that Kierkegaard stopped giving away presentation-copies of his books in 1850 see XXVIII below. From then on the books he gave away would not carry an inscription but would be accompanied by a letter instead. No accompanying letter to a second edition of Works of Love is known to exist either. Laid in the book is a letter from Kühle to Saxild dated 1943 explaining which of Kierkegaard’s own books from his own collection Høedt bought at the auction of Kierkegaard’s book collection after his death. Due to its penetrating illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love Works of Love constitutes the monumental highpoint for Kierkegaard’s concept of love. It is the central work for understanding both the various kinds of love and the conditions of love that Kierkegaard identifies and uses as a basis for his thoughts on Christianity. Although the concept of love is a theme throughout many of his writings from Either-Or 1843 through to On the Changelessness of God’s Love 1855 it is in the present work that it receives its full form. The work is made up of 18 speeches that each explore the many aspects of love. The dominating theme is the commandment to love God and one’s neighbor as one loves oneself. It is through this choice to love that one ideally expresses one’s relationship to God. All the obstacles that stand between this choice of love are also explored in full. But it is cemented that love is that which upbuilds and develops the individual and provides the courage to live a life true to oneself. Only if one loves oneself can one love another. These thoughts are fundamental to Kierkegaard’s philosophy and to his Christianity. As such Works of Love constitutes one of his most important and fundamental works. “This work is marked by Kierkegaard’s Socratic awareness of the reader both as the center of awakened understanding and as the initiator of action. Written to be read aloud the book conveys a keenness of thought and an insightful poetic imagination that make such an attentive approach richly rewarding. Works of Love not only serves as an excellent place to begin exploring the writings of Kierkegaard but also rewards many rereadings.” from the Hong-edition. The present copy is no. 56a in Girsel's "Kierkegaard" The Catalogue which can be found here. hardcover

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Frygt og Bæven. Dialektisk Lyrik af Johannes de Silentio. - INTRODUCING "THE LEAP OF FAITH"

1843réf. 63627Kjøbenhavn 1843. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards and gilt title to spine. Spine worn with loss of leather. Damp stain to upper part of leaves until p. 31. and again at the end. Last leaf with a marginal repair far from affecting text. Brownspotting. Stamp to title-page p. 1 and last page Theoloigical Library the one on title-page overwritten with ownership signature. VIII 135 pp. Scarce first edition of one of Kierkegaard's most splendid and most sought-after works in thich the “Leap of Faith” is introduced. Although Fear and Trembling is evidently printed in the same number of copies as almost all the other works by Kierkegaard i.e. ca 525 this is one of the most difficult of his works to find in the first edition. Perhaps later research will show whether unsold copies were destroyed which seems unlikely however. We know that in July or August 1847 321 copies of Fear and Trembling had been sold. What we also know is that it is highly sought-after by collectors and much less frequently on the market than most of Kierkegaard’s other works. Fear and Trembling is one of Kierkegaard’s most important works. And it is also one of his most difficult. It deals – in forceful brevity – with the relationship between reason and faith and provides us with Kierkegaard’s most thorough exposition of the religious stage which he considered the most meaningful form of existence. Setting the scene in his Preface with the punchy opening lines: “Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid.”Preface Walter Lowrie’s translation 1941 Kierkegaard begins the work with a rendering of the biblical tale of Abraham and Isak from the Old Testament using it to illustrate how religious reasons can triumph over ethical. It is here that Kierkegaard introduces the “tragic hero” and contrasts it to the “Knight of Faith” who both ignore their own wishes for a higher good. These two essential figures epitomize the ethical and the religious and pave the way for the understanding of these stages in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. It is arguably also here that the idea of the essential leap of faith is introduced for the first time. The Knight of Faith sacrifices his son at the command of God and thus sets aside an ethical demand in in order to attain a higher goal that exists beyond the ethical. This teleological suspension of the ethical requires a leap of faith that is only possible through faith in virtue of the absurd. In many ways Fear and Trembling is the most forceful of Kierkegaard’s works as is also indicated by the title. Kierkegaard himself also considered it one of his most significant productions and wrote in his posthumously published Notebooks: “Oh once I am dead Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will be read translated into foreign languages as well. The reader will almost shrink from the frightful pathos in the book.” NB 12:147 1849. This splendidly dense work which so magnificently weaves together existential concerns with biblical interpretation is responsible for the introduction of many of the concepts that are most fundamental to Kierkegaard’s philosophy and is essential to the understanding of his thought. Himmelstrup 48 hardcover

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En literair Anmeldelse. To Tidsaldre Novelle af Forfatteren til "En Hverdagshistorie" udgiven af J.L.Heiberg. Kbhv. Reitzel 1845 anmeldt af S.Kierkegaard. - FIRST EDITION

1846réf. 63628Kjøbenhavn C.A. Reitzel 1846. 8vo. Contemporary black full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding somewhat faded and spotted. stamp to title-page and remains of ink numbering. Some brownspotting and a bit of damp staining. Lacking lower blank corner of title-page and upper blank corner restored. Far from affecting text. 114 pp. First edition of Kierkegaard's important review of Thomasine Gyllembourg's "Two Ages". Having finished his “first” authorship with his monumental “Unscientific Concluding Postscript” the “Literary Review of Thomasine Gyllembourg’s Two Ages” invokes Kierkegaard’s second authorship. The Literary Review is a classic within the conservative critique of modern society. It is here that Kierkegaard presents his most concise and significant analysis of modern society as it shows itself through the press in the relationship between public authorities and the subjects. The work was printed amidst the Corsair-Affair which was a defining event in Kierkegaard’s life and work. Having been unbearably ridiculed in periodical The Corsair since January 1846 Kierkegaard uses his Literary Review of Two Ages printed March 30th 1846 to convey his thoughts on the public and the individual’s relationship to it. Thomasine Gyllembourg was the mother of Johan Ludvig Heiberg and a magnificent author herself. She was one of the most productive authors of the Danish Golden Age despite having had her debut late in life at the age of 53. She was the founder of Danish feminist literature writing about the position of women in society and in the home. Her novel “Two Ages” portrays one of her eminent Madonna figures Claudine who despite her status as seduced and abandoned single mother stays true to herself her beliefs and her role as a mother. Claudine’s sexual liberty of the Revolutionary age is contrasted to the gentle and modest heroine of the present age whose identity is in caring for the home. As such Two Ages opposes the ideals of freedom from the age of the French Revolution with the bourgeois ideals of the Golden Age. In his review Kierkegaard is mainly concerned with the contrast between the two ages in the novel – that of The French Revolution and that contemporary with the novel. Expressed with Kierkegaard’s concepts the age of revolution is passionate and the present age dispassionate; Kierkegaard ends up attacking the conformity of the present age and the de-individualization of people into an abstract public. The inanimate beliefs and views of the present age become especially fatal in the daily press. As a reader one is no longer a passionate individual but part of an anonymous and diffuse public audience. Not until the single individual has established an ethical stance to the whole world as it is can there be any question of genuinely uniting. This is a clear reference to the ridicule Kierkegaard himself experienced due to the Corsair and a harsh verdict upon the Copenhagen audience. But it is not only Kierkegaard’s characterization of mass media that has made “A Literary Review” a conservative classic within the critique of modern society so has Kierkegaard’s description of how the dispassionate age has subverted all social hierarchies and put into question all the relative strength of the different powers of society. This magnificent work is one of Kierkegaard’s most political and that which gives us his clearest analysis of modern society. Himmelstrup 100. hardcover

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Christelige Taler. 4 Afdelinger. - THE CHRISTIAN DISCOURSES

1848réf. 62871Kjøbenhavn C.A. Reitzel 1848. 8vo. Beautiful a little later ca. 1870'ies brown half calf with gilt spine. Boards with blind-stamped pattern. Corners slightly bumped. a lively tight and well-preserved copy. Internally very fresh and clean with jst some occasional brownspotting. A faded owld ownership signature to title-page. A few notes in pencil. Some brownspotting. 103; 74; 96; 77 pp. Firste editiopn of Kierkegaard's Christian Discourses. Published in the midst of the politically tumultuous and revolutionary year 1848 Kierkegaard’s Christian Discourses occupies a unique and inspirational position in European literature. With its simplicity and reflective inwardness the four sections of discourses both invoke Kierkegaard’s collision with the established order of Christendom but at the same time serve as reassuring affirmations of the blessedness of Christian life – in the midst of a world that seemed to be governed by suffering uproar and fundamental change. Marx had published his Communist Manifesto on February 29 1848 Denmark had just gotten its first Prime Minister on March 22 and would get its first Constitution a year later. Kierkegaard’s Christian Discourses was published on April 25 1848. This was amid the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history also known as The Springtime of Nations and a mere month after the fall of the absolute monarchy in Denmark March 21st. But Kierkegaard recognized only one danger: the religious danger. On March 27 1848 he wrote in his journal: “So here I sit. Outside everything is in movement nationalism surges high in all everyone talks of sacrificing life and blood is perhaps ready to do it but supported by the omnipotence of public opinion. And here I sit in a quiet room I will doubtlessly soon be in ill repute for indifference to the national cause; I recognize only one danger: the religious danger.” NB 4:118. The Christian Discourses consists of twenty-eight discourses that are divided into four equal sections of seven discourses each on Biblical texts. The work is arranged in contrasting styles. Whereas Parts One The Cares of the Pagans and Three Thoughts That Wound from Behind--for Upbuilding are polemical and can be read as invoking Kierkegaard’s collision with the established order of Christendom Parts Two Joyful Notes in the Strife of Suffering and Four Discourses at the Communion on Fridays are reassuring for the single individual affirming the joy and blessedness of a Christian life. The work is written in a simple style accessible for everyone and it presents key Christian themes and concepts in a clear and simple way thus serving as one of the best introductions to the Christendom of Kierkegaard. It is furthermore here that he introduces his Discourses at the Communion on Fridays a completely novel genre that came to play a significant role in Kierkegaard’s later writings. The work was published in four parts with separate title-pages and with half-titles stating First to Fourth section. The work is almost always found in one volume as it also appeared but the four parts also appeared separately. Himmelstrup 110. hardcover

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Enten – Eller. Et Livs=Fragment udgivet af Victor Eremita. Anden Udgave. Første Deel indeholdende A.’s Papirer Anden Deel indeholdende B.’s Papirer Breve til A.

1849réf. 63142Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1849. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Spine with wear and scratches. Back hinge partly split. Previous owner's name "P. O. Bugge / 1852". First and last leaves slightly browned otherwise internally nice and clean. XIV 2 320; 4 250 pp final blank. Second edition of Kierkegaard’s Either-Or his magnum opus widely regarded as a foundational work of existentialism and among the most celebrated writings of the greatest Scandinavian philosopher. Kierkegaard is “now generally considered to be however eccentric one of the most important Christian philosophers” PMM 314. Kierkegaard's monumental magnum opus seminally influenced later as well as contemporary philosophy and ranks as one of the most important works of philosophy of modern times. Either-Or is the earliest of Kierkegaard’s major works and the work with which he begins his pseudonymous authorship. Kierkegaard’s pseudonymity is an entire subject unto its own. The various cover names he uses play a significant role in his way of communicating and are essential to the understanding of his philosophical and religious messages. And it all properly begins here with his groundbreaking magnum opus. Conjuring up two distinctive figures with diverging beliefs and modes of life – the aesthetic “A” of Part One and the ethical B note that this is the first “pseudonym” that Kierkegaard uses in his earliest articles – no. I above/Judge Vilhelm of Part Two Kierkegaard presents us with the most basic reflections on the search for a meaningful existence seen from two completely different philosophical views. This masterpiece of duality explores the foundational conflict between the ethical and the aesthetical providing us along the way with the now so famous contemplations on music Mozart drama boredom pleasures virtues and probably most famously seduction and rejection – The Seducer’s Diary. It is primarily Judge Vilhelm from Part Two of Either-Or that has bestowed upon Kierkegaard the reputation as the Father of Existentialism. His emphasis on taking ownership of oneself and the importance of making choices has made him the first personification of Existentialism and the idea that one does not passively develop into the self that he or she should be or ought to become. Kierkegaard went to great lengths to ensure that the public would not know the identity of the author was of Either-Or. He even had the draft of the work done by several hands so that employees at the printer’s would also be deceived. Despite his efforts however it did not take long for the public to guess that Kierkegaard had written this astounding work. But Kierkegaard himself kept up the façade and did not accept authorship until several years later. Nothing Kierkegaard did was left to chance which his carefully chosen pseudonyms also reflect. This also spills over in his presentation-inscriptions which follow as strict a pattern as the pseudonyms themselves – he never signed himself the author if his Christian name was not listed as the author on the title-page. And seeing that he had not accepted authorship of Either-Or and is not mentioned by name anywhere on the title-page also not as the editor nor publisher as with the other pseudonymous works he was not able to give away copies of his magnum opus which is why no presentation-copy of the first edition exists. The appearance of the second edition of this monumental work was naturally carefully planned. Either-Or first appeared in 1843 and due to the great demand for the work which had originally only been printed in ca 525 copies it had quickly been sold out; but Kierkegaard refused to have it reprinted. In 1849 finally he decided to let it appear again in a textually unchanged version. When the second edition appeared recte second issue Kierkegaard had meanwhile owned up to the authorship of Either-Or. He had done so in 1846 in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript to The Philosophical Fragments own translation: “For the sake of manners and etiquette I hereby acknowledge what can hardly in reality be of interest to anybody to know that I am as one says the author of Either-Or Victor Eremita Copenhagen in February 1843.”. Now finally Kierkegaard could give away his magnum opus! In his Papers from 1849 Kierkegaard states own translation: “The poets here at home each received a copy of Either-Or. I thought it my duty; and now I was able to do it; because now one cannot reasonably claim that a conspiracy is made concerning the book. -because the book is now old and its crisis over. Of course they were given the copy from Victor Eremita.” Pap. X1A 402. Naturally because “as little as I in Either-Or is the Seductor or the Assessor as little am I the publisher Victor Eremita exactly as little; he is a poetically-real subjective thinker as he is also found in “in vino veritas.” “ the postscript to the Postscript 1846 Either-Or is now not only the title of Kierkegaard’s most famous and widely read work it is also a phrase that summarizes much of the thinking for which he is best known and a cornerstone of what we now characterize as Existentialism. The first edition caused a sensation. The second issue termed “edition” although it is textually unaltered is not only the first edition of the work to appear after Kierkegaard had acknowledged authorship of it and thus also confirmed being one and the same with his most famous pseudonym it is also the first of Kierkegaard’s works to appear in a second edition or issue. The second edition of the work is thus also of the utmost importance and is one of the only important second editions of any of Kierkegaard’s works. PMM: 314 Himmelstrup 21 unknown

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Frygt og Bæven. Dialektisk Lyrik af Johannes de Silentio. - A SPLENDID COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING

1843réf. 62137Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1843. 8vo. VIII 135 pp. Completely uncut in the original blue cardboard binding. Spine and front hinge neatly restored preserving part of the original printed title-label. Brownspotting as usual. Overall a very nice copy indeed. Old owners’ names to inside of front board N. Pedersen 18/8 1879 and C. Wegener. A splendid copy of one of Kierkegaard's most splendid and most sought-after works in the original binding which is extremely rare. The spines of the original Kierkegaard cardboard bindings are always just thin paper directly glued on the block making them extremely fragile and the original paper-labels are hardly every preserved. Although Fear and Trembling is evidently printed in the same number of copies as almost all the other works by Kierkegaard i.e. ca 525 this is one of the most difficult of his works to find in the first edition. Perhaps later research will show whether unsold copies were destroyed which seems unlikely however. We know that in July or August 1847 321 copies of Fear and Trembling had been sold. What we also know is that it is highly sought-after by collectors and much less frequently on the market than most of Kierkegaard’s other works. It is very odd that not a single copy on special paper or in a gift-binding presentation-copy or anything like that has been located or registered. For this title a Kierkegaard-collector will have to make do with a “normal” copy. The present copy in the original binding and completely uncut is the best copy we have come across over the last many decades. FEAR AND TREMBLING is one of Kierkegaard’s most important works. And it is also one of his most difficult. It deals – in forceful brevity – with the relationship between reason and faith and provides us with Kierkegaard’s most thorough exposition of the religious stage which he considered the most meaningful form of existence. Setting the scene in his Preface with the punchy opening lines: “Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid.”Preface Walter Lowrie’s translation 1941 Kierkegaard begins the work with a rendering of the biblical tale of Abraham and Isak from the Old Testament using it to illustrate how religious reasons can triumph over ethical. It is here that Kierkegaard introduces the “tragic hero” and contrasts it to the “Knight of Faith” who both ignore their own wishes for a higher good. These two essential figures epitomize the ethical and the religious and pave the way for the understanding of these stages in Kierkegaard’s philosophy. It is arguably also here that the idea of the essential leap of faith is introduced for the first time. The Knight of Faith sacrifices his son at the command of God and thus sets aside an ethical demand in in order to attain a higher goal that exists beyond the ethical. This teleological suspension of the ethical requires a leap of faith that is only possible through faith in virtue of the absurd. In many ways Fear and Trembling is the most forceful of Kierkegaard’s works as is also indicated by the title. Kierkegaard himself also considered it one of his most significant productions and wrote in his posthumously published Notebooks: “Oh once I am dead Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will be read translated into foreign languages as well. The reader will almost shrink from the frightful pathos in the book.” NB 12:147 1849. This splendidly dense work which so magnificently weaves together existential concerns with biblical interpretation is responsible for the introduction of many of the concepts that are most fundamental to Kierkegaard’s philosophy and is essential to the understanding of his thought. Not a single presentation-copy of the work is known to exist and none has ever been registered nor identified. We know from the auction catalogue that Kierkegaard had two copies in his collection one in “dainty binding” but neither copy has been located. Himmelstrup 48 The present copy is no. 18 in Girsel's "Kierkegaard" The Catalogue which can be found here. unknown

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Philosophiske Smuler eller en Smule Philosophi. Af Johannes Climacus. Udgivet af S. Kierkegaard. - A REMARKABLY FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

1844réf. 62257Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1844. Small 8vo. 164 pp. Completely uncut in the original printed light green wrappers with the text of the title-page repeated inside a frame to front board printed author and title to spine and the printing year within the same repeated frame to the back board. An almost untouched copy with just a tiny crease to the front wrapper and a tiny little nick to lower capital at back hinge. A bit of brownspotting due to the quality of the paper. Housed in an elegant green half morocco box with gilt lines and Gothic gilt lettering to spine. Green marbled paper boards and gilt super ex libris to front board Anker Kysters Eftf. And gilt by Hagel Olsen. A truly remarkable copy of the first edition in completely original condition in the fragile original wrappers virtually untouched. We have seen copies in the original wrappers before but never in this state. This is a truly amazing survival. In uncut state the work is a lot larger than regular copies – more than a cm taller and also significantly wider. By many Philosophical Fragments is considered Kierkegaard’s actual religious-philosophical main work. It is the first book written under the important pseudonym Johannes Climacus and it is here that Kierkegaard unfolds the tension between philosophy and religion in an attempt to find a historical onset for eternal consciousness opposing the ideological thought inherited by Plato Aristotle and Hegel. Through Climacus Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. He begins with Greek Platonic philosophy exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth acquired through recollection to the Christian experience of acquiring truth through grace. It is in Philosophical Fragments that Kierkegaard’s polemic against the philosophy of Hegel becomes most obvious portraying clearly for the first time how the salvation of man can only be found through the paradoxical inversion of the rational values of speculative philosophy and through the “leap of faith” in the crucified Christ. It is here that we have the very root of Existentialism. In his preface Kierkegaard hints at a possible “sequel to Philosophical Fragments in 17 pieces”; this sequel was published in 1846 namely as the 600 pages long Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments which is 83 pages long…. Only one single presentation-copy of Philosophical Fragments is known to exist. Himmelstrup: 62. The present copy is no. 23 in Girsel's "Kierkegaard" The Catalogue which can be found here. hardcover

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