SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (1788-1860). Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung . Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1819.
SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (1788-1860). Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung . Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1819. 8° (225 x 131mm). Folding chart opposite page 73 and several diagrams in text. (Spotted heavily at beginnng and end, chart with slight tear along fold, one leaf holed with slight loss.) Uncut in German half cloth with gilt lettering-piece and grey marbled boards (cloth frayed, corners bumped), later black morocco solander box. Provenance : G[ustave] [Friedrich] Wagner (his note of purchase in 1889 for 30 Marks on front pastedown and 4-line signed verse inscription, dated Mönz 1890, on front free endpaper, both in black ink; passage numbering, corrections, and notes on differences between this edition and a later one made in purple crayon, frequent underlining and scoring). FIRST EDITION OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PRINCIPAL WORK, UNCUT COPY WITH AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION. By placing contemplation higher than concepts as a mode of experience, Schopenhauer became 'the artist's philosopher' with a powerful influence upon Richard Wagner Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and through to Wolfgang Hildesheimer. In the spring of 1818, when still completely unknown, he had written to Friedrich August Brockhaus, inviting him to print his 'new philosophical system: but new in the full sense of the word: not a new presentation of what existed before, but a chain of thought linked to the highest degree, such as has not previously entered any man's head' (quoted by R. Safranski, Schopenhauer , translated by Ewald Osers, 1989, p. 238). By insisting on payment before the book had even appeared, Schopenhauer offended Brockhaus who told him his behaviour was more typical of a coachman than a philosopher. The book received little critical attention, though Goethe read it and Jean Paul one of the mentors of the German Romantic movement, compared it to 'a melancholy lake in Norway, within whose dark encircling wall of steep rocks one never sees the sun.' Hübscher states that 750 copies were published. According to Safranski (p. 277), Brockhaus informed Schopenhauer that the total was 1800 copies, of which 150 were still in stock in 1828, while many others had been pulped. This copy belonged to the philosopher, Gustav Wagner, who published the Encyklopädisches Register zu Schopenhauer's Werken in 1909, a major reference work continued by Arthur Hübscher in 1960. Hübscher Schopenhauer-Bibliographie 10 (Wagner's contributions to the literature are also cited).
SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (1788-1860). Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung . Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1819.
SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (1788-1860). Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung . Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1819. 8° (225 x 131mm). Folding chart opposite page 73 and several diagrams in text. (Spotted heavily at beginnng and end, chart with slight tear along fold, one leaf holed with slight loss.) Uncut in German half cloth with gilt lettering-piece and grey marbled boards (cloth frayed, corners bumped), later black morocco solander box. Provenance : G[ustave] [Friedrich] Wagner (his note of purchase in 1889 for 30 Marks on front pastedown and 4-line signed verse inscription, dated Mönz 1890, on front free endpaper, both in black ink; passage numbering, corrections, and notes on differences between this edition and a later one made in purple crayon, frequent underlining and scoring). FIRST EDITION OF SCHOPENHAUER'S PRINCIPAL WORK, UNCUT COPY WITH AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION. By placing contemplation higher than concepts as a mode of experience, Schopenhauer became 'the artist's philosopher' with a powerful influence upon Richard Wagner Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and through to Wolfgang Hildesheimer. In the spring of 1818, when still completely unknown, he had written to Friedrich August Brockhaus, inviting him to print his 'new philosophical system: but new in the full sense of the word: not a new presentation of what existed before, but a chain of thought linked to the highest degree, such as has not previously entered any man's head' (quoted by R. Safranski, Schopenhauer , translated by Ewald Osers, 1989, p. 238). By insisting on payment before the book had even appeared, Schopenhauer offended Brockhaus who told him his behaviour was more typical of a coachman than a philosopher. The book received little critical attention, though Goethe read it and Jean Paul one of the mentors of the German Romantic movement, compared it to 'a melancholy lake in Norway, within whose dark encircling wall of steep rocks one never sees the sun.' Hübscher states that 750 copies were published. According to Safranski (p. 277), Brockhaus informed Schopenhauer that the total was 1800 copies, of which 150 were still in stock in 1828, while many others had been pulped. This copy belonged to the philosopher, Gustav Wagner, who published the Encyklopädisches Register zu Schopenhauer's Werken in 1909, a major reference work continued by Arthur Hübscher in 1960. Hübscher Schopenhauer-Bibliographie 10 (Wagner's contributions to the literature are also cited).
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