Kierkégaard

Atten opbyggelige Taler af S. Kierkegaard. - EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL TITLE-LABEL

1843réf. 62941Kjøbenhavn Philipsen 1843-45. 8vo. 4 52 62 1 blank leaf 84 59 including the blank leaf between the title-page and the preface! 70 1 blank leaf 111 pp. Completely uncut in the original brownish grey boards with original printed title-label to spine fully intact. Boards a bit brownspotted and a larger damp stain to top of front board. A couple of smaller stains lacquer or wax to spine. A few horizontal creases to spine with paper almost invisibly glued back on to hold tight. Occasional brownspotting mostly to the first and last leaves. But overall splendidly preserved. A truly magnificent copy of the first edition of this very scarce Kierkegaard-title in completely original condition with all of the original printed title-label preserved and fully complete with the joint title-page contents all the half-titles dedications blanks etc. This Kierkegaard-title is rare in itself with much less than 278 copies printed in all but it is utterly amazing to find this exceedingly rare book in original state like here. Only very few copies are left in the original binding which we have only seen once before. The spines of the original Kierkegaard cardboard bindings are always just thin paper directly glued on the block making them extremely fragile. If one finds these original bindings the spines are almost always more or less disintegrated. The present copy is a rare exception that furthermore has the original title-label which is of the utmost scarcity. To our knowledge only one other copy in the original binding has been located. Apart from the other copy we have seen of this work in the original binding the present copy is also the only original Kierkegaard-binding we have seen that is not in the usual blue “hollanderet” cardboard binding but plain brown. No other such copy has been registered for sale and no other such copy to our knowledge is registered in any institution. Furthermore this seems to be the only copy to have surfaced so far which has preserved the original printed title-label in its entirety. As far as we know it has been recorded no-where due to its extreme scarcity. Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding or Edifying Discourses were published over the course of two years in 1843 and 1844. In all 18 Upbuilding Discourses were published divided over six publications namely: Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 Three Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 Four Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1844 Three Upbuilding Discourses from 1844 Four Upbuilding Discourses from 1844 Each of these publications accompanied one of the main pseudonymous works beginning with Either-Or in 1843. As opposed to his major philosophical works the religious upbuilding discourses actually bear the name of the author on the title-page. Of course this was by no means incidental. While the pseudonymous works could raise the question of the religiousness of the author the parallelly written religious discourses stress the fact that we are dealing with an author who was religious from the very beginning – an essential fact that Kierkegaard wished to stress for those interested in his authorship. In his journals Kierkegaard clearly states that the religious discourses are as significant in his oeuvre as a whole as are the larger pseudonymous works “I began with “Either-Or” and two upbuilding discourses.” he says and explains that he intended the upbuilding the religious to advance and that he wanted to show “that the writer was not an aesthetic author who in the course of time grew older and for that reason became religious”. Journals IX A 227. He was religious all along also during all of the major philosophical publications that were not written in his name. The fact that every major pseudonymous work – up until Concluding Unscientific Postscript appeared and revealed the identity of the real author – was accompanied by one of these small Upbuilding Discourses bears testament to the pivotal role they play in Kierkegaard’s philosophical development. Furthermore while Kierkegaard could not present anyone with copies of his pseudonymous works as explained above he could indeed give away presentation-copies of his accompanying Upbuilding Discourses which he then did. The Upbuilding Discourses are particularly interesting in several regards one being that it is in the course of the printing of these that Kierkegaard changes his publisher. Ever since Kierkegaard had chosen to publish his first book himself he had had his books on commission with the leading Copenhagen publisher Reitzel the sole exception being his thesis the Irony. That was also the case with Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843. But for some reason the following five publications of Upbuilding Discourses did not appear with Reitzel but with P.G. Philipsen instead. We do not know the exact reason for this change in publishers as the commission was exactly the same for the two. Whereas Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 had sold relatively well the Three and Four Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 did not sell well. A mere 102 and 104 copies respectively out of a commission issue of 300 were sold. In an attempt at making money on these discourses in spite of the poor sales numbers Philipsen offers to buy the unsold copies of Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 buys a sales issue of 300 copies of the Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1844 and makes the same agreement with Kierkegaard for the following two Discourse-publications. Sales numbers are still poor however and in the spring of 1845 only ca 100 copies of each of the 1844 Discourse publications have been sold. The printing issue of each was about 500 and Philipsen’s sales issue 300; thus both Philipsen and Kierkegaard had large numbers of each Discourse-publication left and in May 1845 they make a new deal. Philipsen buys the remainder issues of all six Discourse-publications including the 278 copies of Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 from Reitzel. Philipsen has a joint title-page printed along with a contents-leaf and now issues the seminal Kierkegaard-publication that is no. 85 in the bibliography Himmelstrup namely Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses – all six publications constituting all eighteen Upbuilding Discourses collected in one book. Seeing that there were 278 copies left of the Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 a maximum of 278 copies of Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses can have been made making it one of the scarcest Kierkegaard-books. The actual number is certainly lower than 278 though probably quite a bit lower seeing that Philipsen continued to sell the separate publications all copies of which he then evidently did not include in the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. The individual pamphlets of course are even scarcer with a maximum of 232 copies of Two Upbuilding Discourses from 1843 and somewhere between 100 and 150 copies of the others. We know from the Erindringsbog fra Bianco Luno 1844 that Kierkegaard had 506 copies of Four Upbuilding Discourses 1844 printed six of them on fine paper for presentation. Seeing that we have already established the clear thread of identity throughout all six publications we must assume that the other pamphlets were printed in the same numbers. And we have the record of the remainder issues that Philipsen buys in 1845 which lets us conclude of the Upbuilding Discourses that by that time 222 copies of Two 1843 139 copies of Three 1843 130 copies of Four 1843 120 copies of Two 1844 92 copies of Three 1844 96 copies of Four 1844 were sold out of the total number of original issues. In other words these are extremely scarce. Not least in the original wrappers or bindings. The scarcest Kierkegaard-title that exists however will be found in the continuation of the printing history of the Upbuilding Discourses. It is the mythically rare title of Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses which Philipsen issued in 1852 when the Two Upbuilding Discourses had been sold out and it was no longer possible to collect Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses. Thus Philipsen had yet another title-page printed this time with Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses as the title and the year 1843-45 on it along with a new index-leaf; he issued this the scarcest of all Kierkegaard-titles in March 1852. “It is not known how large the issue was but it cannot have been more than 83 seeing that that was what was left of Three Upbuilding Discourses from 1843.” Tekstspejle p. 54 translated from Danish. The idea of the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses let alone the Sixteen was not Kierkegaard’s. He had agreed to the Eighteen but it was not his intended project with the Upbuilding Discourses. Therefore he wished for the book not to be reviewed and he naturally did not give away any copies of the Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and of course not the Sixteen either only the individual pamphlets. In all seven presentation-copies of the different Upbuilding Discourses are registered all being for either Heiberg or Nielsen. Curiously neither Eighteen nor Sixteen Upbuilding Discourses were to be found in Kierkegaard’s book collection after his death. All the individual pamphlets were however along with a copy of the first nine Upbuilding Discourses – i.e. the three publications from 1843 – bound together. For more on the conundrum of the actual number of copies of the Upbuilding Discourses see the Preface by Flemming Chr. Nielsen in Girsel’s Kierkegaard-catalogue p. 19. Himmelstrup 85 hardcover

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Gjentagelsen. Et Forsøg i den experimenterende Psychologi af Constantin Constantius. - A SPLENDID COPY IN THE ORIGINBAL BINDING

1843réf. 62218Kjøbenhavn Reitzel 1843. Small 8vo. 157 pp. Original blue cardboard-binding. The spine has been restored but it has the original printed paper title-label partly preserved. Hinges are a bit weak and there is some edgewear. Browning and brownspotting but not more than usual. Completely uncut. Housed in a nice custom-made half lather box in pastiche style with richly gilt spine. The first edition in the very rare original blue binding with most of the original printed title-label preserved. REPETITION – not only the title of one of his most significant books but also a key concept in the philosophy of Kierkegaard – was written during the same brief spell of feverish activity that also produced Fear and Trembling; the two books were even published on the same day. ”Say what you will this question will play a very important role in modern philosophy for repetition is a crucial expression for what “recollection” was to the Greeks. Just as they taught that all knowing is a recollecting modern philosophy will teach that all life is a repetition.” Repetition p. 3 – translation by Hong Kierkegaard states in the beginning of his treatise anticipating the importance that his concept of Repetition is to have for modern philosophy. Written in the narrative form of an experimental novel centered on two stories that are internally linked Kierkegaard lets us understand what Repetition could be and what it is in his philosophy. The first story portrays Repetition as something empty and trivial whereas the second portrays it as an ethical category that is inextricably linked to religion. Repetition is that which makes it possible for man to become and to remain present in the present. Kierkegaard’s explanation of his key concept of Repetition is exhausted in the present work but it also plays a significant role throughout his later works and is considered one of the key concepts in his philosophy. The work is centered around the story of a young man who has fallen in love with an innocent young girl to whom he has become engaged. But finding himself unable to consummate the love because of poetic stirrings inside himself he tries to understand what is going on inside him and whether or not he should break off the engagement. The elderly Constantin Constantius one of Kierkegaard’s numerous pseudonyms interferes with the emotions of our young man and begins to conduct speculative experiments with him that are meant to investigate whether a repetition of the relationship with the girl of the young man’s feelings etc. might be possible. At the end of the first part the young man flees Copenhagen and leaves the girl presumably at her wits’ end. Later she marries someone else and the young man transforms into the true poet that he could only be when unattached to the girl he loved. It does not take much of an imagination to link this story to the Kierkegaard’s own wildly famous love story and failed engagement to Regine Olsen. It all begins in 1837 when Kierkegaard meets the lovely young girl Regine Olsen at a visit to the widowed Cathrine Rørdam. Three years later in September 1840 after having corresponded frequently with her and visited her on numerous occasions Kierkegaard decides to ask for her hand in marriage. She and her family accept but the following day Kierkegaard regrets his decision and ends up finally breaking off the engagement in October 1841. Disregarding the scandal the heartbreak his own included and the numerous pleas from family members and friends alike Kierkegaard’s tortured soul still searching for God and for the meaning of faith cannot continue living with the promise of marriage. Later the same month he flees Copenhagen and the scandal surrounding the broken engagement. He leaves for Berlin the first of his four stays there clearly tortured by his decision but also intent on not being able to go through with the engagement. As is evident from his posthumously published Papers Kierkegaard’s only way out of the relationship was to play a charming but cold villain a charlatan not betraying his inner thoughts and feelings. It is during his stay in Berlin his first of four altogether right after the rupture of the engagement that he begins writing Either-Or parts of which like Repetition can be read as an almost autobiographical rendering of his failed engagement. Repetition more than any other work lets us see how Kierkegaard came to be as an author through his tumultuous inner life during his engagement and the ending of it. Like Fear and Trembling there are no presentation-copies known to exist of Repetition. Himmelstrup 53 unknown

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Øieblikket. Nr. 1-9. Dette skal siges; saa være det da sagt.

1855réf. 62984Kjøbenhavn C.A. Reitzel 1855. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. A bit of wear to extremities. Internally with a bit of marginal browning. Øieblikket: 20 31 16 23 32 26 77 30 22 pp.; Dette skal siges. 12 pp. First edition of both works. Øieblikket with all nine numbers in first issue is very rare. Himmelstrup 180 177. unknown

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I. A: Ogsaa et Forsvar for Qvindens höie Anlæg. II. B: Kjøbenhavnspostens Morgenbetragtninger i Nr. 43 III. B: Om Fædrelandets Polemik IV. S. KIERKEGAARD: Til Hr. Orla Lehman. printed in: Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post Interimsblad Nr. 34 76 82/83 . - VERY RARE FIRST PRINTINGS OF KIERKEGAARD'S FIRST FOUR PUBLICATIONS

1836réf. 62102Kjøbenhavn 1834-1836. Large 4to. Interimsblade i.e. Interim Papers 1-100 with the joint title-page and the contents leaf bound in a very nice contemporary brown half calf with gilt spine and marbled paper over boards. Spine with wear and hinges and corners bumped. Edges of boards with wear. Occasional brownspotting throughout but all in all a fine and well preserved copy. Each “Interimsblad” takes up 4 pp. Kierkegaard’s contributions: I: ab. 1 p.; II: 2 3/4 pp.; III: 4 pp.; IV: 4 pp. Very rare first printings of Kierkegaard’s first four publications including the very first publication in Kierkegaard’s own name which constitutes a true milestone in the history of Kierkegaard’s opus as does of course his very first publication. KIERKEGAARD’S VERY EARLIEST publications are the papers that he publishes in Kjøbenhavns Flyvende Post before he publishes his famous first book which is a polemic attack on Hans Christian Andersen. The first and fourth of these earliest periodical publications are arguably the most important being the very first thing Kierkegaard publishes and the very first publication in Kierkegaard’s own name respectively; but all these four earliest papers Himmelstrup 123 and 4 are significant 23 and 4 dealing with contemporary press issues primarily freedom of press. Danish politics in the 1830’es was dominated by the slow implementation of rules for election for and assembly of the Estates of the Realm. But as they were only advisory the papers and periodicals were not allowed to publish their opinions. In response to this a liberal opposition arose around the two polemic papers Kjøbenhavnsposten The Copenhagen Post and Fædrelandet The Fatherland. The first point on the agenda for the Liberals was the fight for freedom of the press and the abolishment of censorship. This fight for freedom of the press was something that found resonance with Copenhagen academics and it stirred up a lively activity in Copenhagen. In 1835 active Liberals had encouraged King Frederik VI to support freedom of press but had received an answer stating that he alone was able to evaluate what was truly the best for the people and the state. After this answer from the king the “Society for the Correct Use of the Freedom of press” was founded by moderate liberals and young liberals and at the end of the year almost 2.300 members had joined. It was in the midst of all this that the 21-year old Søren Kierkegaard then a student of theology had his debut with political-literary articles in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post in Interimsbladende which were published separately. But as opposed to the predominantly liberal views of almost all other contributors Kierkegaard’s articles expressed distinctly conservative views. His first publication Også et Forsvar for Qvindens høie Anlæg Also a Defense of the High Abilities of the Woman constitutes an unpolished ironic apology for the liberation of women. This article is published in December 1834 and is signed “A.”. As opposed to the following next three articles this does not deal with freedom of press. Kierkegaard’s three following publications however all concern the question of freedom of press and constitute satirical polemics against the two liberal papers Kjøbenhavnsposten and Fædrelandet against Orla Lehmann the upcoming star of the liberal youth and against all liberals in general. These three articles were published in February and April 1836. The two first are signed “B.” and the third signed “S. Kierkegaard” constitutes the very first publication in his own name. As is well known the names under which Kierkegaard later publishes come to play a significant role in his authorship and represent an extremely thorough and well-thought-out construction. The foundation of this play with the reader is thus laid in the present publications in which he begins to develop the style for which he later gained worldwide renown. The “names” A and B under which he here publishes will most famously be used again in Either- Or Part one of which consists in “A.’s Papers” and Part Two in “B.’s Papers Letters to A.” Common for all four of his first publications is the attempt at polemic and satirical power at literary elegance and at a masterful and ceremonious critique of the prose of the opponent – all dominant traits in his later writings. Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post The Flying Post of Copenhagen was one of the most important and most widely read cultural and literary periodicals of the period. It was edited and run by Johan Ludvig Heiberg 1791-1860 arguably the most famous cultural person during the Danish Golden Age. He played a more significant role than any other author or thinker during this period and was the leading character of literature and philosophy in the 19th century. He introduced many German thinkers to Denmark most importantly Hegel – who Kierkegaard would later oppose – and he was part of almost all intellectual discussions of the Danish Golden Age. He was also a patron for many leading figures of the era. Interestingly several people thought that the first of the articles on the freedom of the press was written by Heiberg. This was of dubious merit to Kierkegaard himself as he was opposed to the circles around Heiberg and the Hegelian environment but it was still this article – and this miscomprehension – that gave him a claim to fame. Another paper claimed that this “priceless” article had been written by Heiberg himself who “had written many witty things but never anything as witty as this.” Also Kierkegaard’s professor of philosophy Poul Martin Møller to whom Kierkegaard was very devoted and to whom he dedicated Begrebet Angest the only person outside of his family that Kierkegaard ever wrote a printed dedication for loved the article and assumed that Heiberg had written it. “He Kierkegaard had a lifelong antipathy toward the press though he himself published reviews in various papers. His mistrust of the press as a legitimate organ of communication was based on several observations one of which was that the press was the voice of the masses rather than that of the individual. He viewed that voice with great skepticism and sarcasm in later years averring that the crowd. even if technically correct. is wrong by the very fact of being the crowd. The truth can only be stated and practiced as individuals especially as individuals before God. Admittedly Kierkegaard’s view of the masses was not well developed at this juncture.” D. Antony Storm. Himmelstrup: 1 2 3 & 4. The present copy is no. 1 in Girsel's "Kierkegaard" The Catalogue which can be found here. hardcover

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Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt hensyn til Socrates. Af S. A. Kierkegaard. - KIERKEGAARD’S DISSERTATION IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING WHICH IS OF THE UTMOST SCARCITY.

1841réf. 62112Kjøbenhavn P.G. Philipsens Forlag 1841. 8vo. 4 350 pp. 1 f. blank 2 pp. advertisements. Completely uncut and partly unopened in the original brown cardboard binding. Rebacked with paper perfectly matching that of the boards. Corners restored. Title-page evenly browned and a few leaves with a bit of brownspotting but overall in unusually nice condition clean fresh and bright. Completely unmarked. A fabulous copy of the first edition of Kierkegaard’s dissertation here in the original binding which is of the utmost scarcity. We have only seen it in this state once before. And of all the copies we have handled of the Irony over the last decades we have only once before come across a copy with the advertisement-leaf in the back. This is virtually never present. This completely uncut copy is approximately 1 cm taller and wider than regular copies. 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. If one finds these original bindings the spines are almost always more or less disintegrated. Kierkegaard's dissertation constitutes 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. The year 1841 is a momentous one in Kierkegaard’s life. It is the year that he completes his dissertation and commences his sojourn in Berlin but it is also the defining year in his personal life namely the year that he breaks off his engagement with Regine Olsen. And finally it is the year that he begins writing Either-Or. 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. Two weeks later on October 12th Kierkegaard broke off his engagement with Regine Olsen for the implications of this event see the section about Regine in vol. II. 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 present copy is one of the sales-copies without theses. Himmelstrup 8 The present copy is no. 11 in Girsel's "Kierkegaard" The Catalogue which can be found here. hardcover

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Prefaces: Writing Sampler

réf. 3404200-6Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Princeton University Press unknown

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The Lily of the Field and The Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses.

2016réf. C202554Princeton University Press 2016. Hardcover Hardcover. Fine. Small octavo. xxxv 90pp. Original black cloth with silver spine titles. Fine and unread in fine dust jacket. Princeton University Press hardcover

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Forord. Morskabslæsning for enkelte Stænder efter Tid og Leilighed af Nicolaus Notabene. - KIERKEGAARD'S MOST HUMOROUS WORK - A FORERUNNER OF POSTMODERNISM

1844réf. 62093Kjøbenhavn C.A. Reitzel 1844. 8vo. A splendid copy in contemporary full cloth with blindstamped decorations to boards and gothic gilt lettering to spine. Light damp stains to back board and a bit of wear to capitals. Internally unusually nice and clean. 110 1 pp. With an inscription for Josephine Bidoulac later married to Welhaven from Emil Wedel to front fly-leaf. Pencil annotations by Jonas Skovgaard to front free end-paper. The uncommon first edition in a lovely copy of Kierkegaard's most humorous work. Published simultaneously with The Concept of Anxiety Prefaces can be viewed as its companion piece. It represents an altogether different genre but the two fictional authors of the works interestingly contrast each other. Although having been eclipsed by the now notoriously famous Concept of Anxiety Prefaces was in fact more popular when it appeared and sold many more copies. Written under the pseudonym of Nicolaus Notabene the “author” name indicates that despite its humorous approach Prefaces is still something serious – something to be noted. And it certainly is. It is here that we find Kierkegaard’s sarcastic roasting of the Hegelian system and of the Danish Hegelians with Johan Ludvig Heiberg as the main representant. Through Notabene he makes fun of Heiberg and Hegel who both want to explain everything and want to be mediators of understanding. Just as Hafniensis in The Concept on Anxiety poses that “how sin came into the world each man understands solely by himself. If he would learn it from another he would misunderstand it” p. 51 so Notabene in Prefaces states that “My frame my health my entire constitution do not lend themselves to mediation” p. 45. In Prefaces we also find Kierkegaard’s thoughts about the relationship between the reading public and the author and his fierce criticism of literary critics and reviewers. And in the very amusing preface to the Prefaces we are given another glimpse into Kierkegaard’s thoughts on marriage and the dilemma he found himself in with Regine – the inner struggle between he who is the husband and he who is the author; can one be both With its challenging notions on the idea of the book and the interaction of the book with its readers his little ironic masterpiece is a clear forerunner of Postmodernism Himmelstrup 7. hardcover

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

1843réf. 62092Kjøbenhavn 1843. 8vo. Contemporary dark brown half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Capitals and a bit of the front hinge worn but overall very nice and tight. Internally a bit of brownspotting as always due to the quality of the paper but less than usual. Old owner's signature to title-page. VIII 135 pp. First edition of one of Kierkegaard's most important and sought-after works Fear and Trembling which is rather more difficult to find than most of his 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. 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. Himmelstrup 48. hardcover

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Stadier paa Livets Vei. Studier af Forskjellige. Sammenbragte befordrede til Trykken og udgivne af Hilarius Bogbinder. - "THE LEAP OF FAITH"

1845réf. 62096Kjøbenhavn Copenhagen 1845. Lex8vo. Nice contemporary brown half cloth with gilt title to spine. Capitals worn and wear along upper front hinge. Corners worn. In spite of the wear an attractive and tight copy. First and last leaves with a bit of brownspotting otherwise only light occasional spotting. Old owner's signature to title-page. 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 takes up ab. 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 as the aesthetic and ethical stages are 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 in stead of reason and knowledge the leap that you make in order to connect to God and which requires that which he calls "the suspension of the ethical". 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. hardcover

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Encounters With Kierkegaard

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The Two Ages

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Repetition. An essay in experimental psychology. Translated with introduction and notes by Walter Lowrie.

réf. 112594London Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford 1942. . First UK edition first issue; 8vo 19 x 12.5 cm; occasional minor pencil annotations perforation stubs to end; publisher's blue cloth spine lettered in gilt unclipped pale blue dust-jacket spine and edges slightly toned a few minor chips very slight spotting to prelims one or two creases otherwise internally clean and very good plus; xlii 174pp. Kierkegaard's great philosophical novel exploring the concepts of atonement and the remembrance of things to come. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Constantin Constantius Repetition inverts the Platonic doctrine of recollection the belief that we are born with prior knowledge whose realisation is contingent upon our discovery of it: 'Repetition and recollection are the same movement only in opposite directions; for what is recollection has been is repeated backwards whereas repetition properly so called is recollected forwards' p.3. An important existential work based on a semi-autobiographical account of Kierkegaard's relationship with Regine Olsen to whom he was engaged in 1840-1841 before breaking off the relationship to pursue his mediative life. Translated from the Swedish by Walter Lowrie the US edition appearing the preceding year. Scarce in the dustjacket. London, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1942. hardcover

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Dividing Politics Along Sectarian Lines In Lebanon: The Religious Subject In Lebanese Politics

2012réf. 1-3659247693Lap Lambert Academic Publishing 2012. Paperback. New. 112 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.26 inches. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing paperback

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The Essential Kierkegaard

2000réf. 1-0691019401Princeton Univ Pr 2000. Paperback. New. 544 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches. Princeton Univ Pr paperback

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Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Sokrates. - KIERKEGAARD'S DISSERTATION

1841réf. 61204Kjøbenhavn P.G. Philipsen 1841. 8vo. Elegant later ca. 1920 brown half calf with four raised bands and gilt morocco title-label to gilt spine. With Paul Rubow's ownership signature to front free end-paper. Clean and fresh both in- and externally with no signs of wear to the exterior and only faint brown spots to a few pages. 4 350 pp. First edition of Kierkegaard's dissertation as it appeared in the normal trade without the preliminary Theses which were intended for academics attending the defence. Kierkegaard’s dissertation constitutes 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 had to petition the King in order to gain permission to submit it in Danish rather than Latin. This in itself contains as certain irony as the young Kierkegaard was known to express himself poorly and very long-winded in written Danish. Both stylistically and thematically Kierkegaard’s dissertation is a seedbed of his subsequent work and especially a clear precursor for his magnum opus Either-Or that is to be his next publication. The year 1841 is a momentous one in Kierkegaard’s life. It is the year that he completes his dissertation and commences his sojourn in Berlin but it is also the defining year in his personal life namely the year that he breaks off his engagement with Regine Olsen. And finally it is the year that he begins writing Either-Or 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 open 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. Kierkegaard's dissertation 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. Himmelstrup 8. hardcover

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