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Berlin: Haude & Spener, 1784. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. What is Enlightenment? KANT, Immanuel. Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? (Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?) in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude & Spener, Berlin, 1784. [viii], 576 pp. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 85]. First printing of Kant's famous reply to the question 'What is Enlightenment?' (pp. 481-494). In this essay, appearing in the December issue, Kant responds to the question posed the previous year by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner. Many intellectuals responded with essays of their own, but Kants stands as the most important as he unexpectedly claims courage more than intellect stands as the critical component for an enlightened individual and society.The volume also includes Moses Mendelssohn's answer to the same question (pp. 193-200), and one other essay by Kant: 'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (pp. 385-411). Adickes 50 and 51. SCARCE. Rarely found in the… Read More

Berlin u. Libau: Lagarde und Friederich, 1790. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Kant’s Third and Final Critique: Judgment KANT, Immanuel, Critik der Urtheilskraft (Critique of Judgment), Lagarde und Friederich, Berlin u. Libau, 1790. 1 blank leaf + TP + [iii] – x = Vorrede + [xi] – lvi = Einleitung (introduction) + [lvii] – lviii = Eintheilung (divisions/contents) + half-title + [1] – 476 + 1 leaf = Druckfehler; (errata), Octavo. First Edition [Warda 125]. Kant’s third and final critique explores the notion of beauty. For Kant, the beautiful rests between the good and the pleasant. Where the good is that which is esteemed by all and the pleasant is that which gratifies the one, the beautiful pleases the one as it does others. Beauty in art is bound up with such subjective universality—it speaks to the hearts of all men. Judgment of the beautiful is true because pleases me in a way that it also universally pleases those with taste. The experience of the beautiful is free from being… Read More

Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Recasting of Genesis Muthmaßlicher Anfang der Menschengeschichte” (Conjectural Beginning of Human History), in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude und Spener, Berlin, 1786. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 101]. First printing of Kant's essay on 'The Conjectural Beginning of the Human Race’ where, following the book of Genesis, he speculates as to the origins of humanity. CONDITION: Very good or better with frontispiece portrait. In contemporary pale boards, rubbed at extremities and corners worn, spine a little darkened, with gilt rules and red label, outer leaves slightly foxed, elsewhere uniform light age-toning. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. KANT, Immanuel, Der Streit der Facultaten in Drey Abschnitten (The Faculty Dispute in Three Essays). Friedrich Nicolovius, Konigsberg, 1798. 1 blank leaf + TP + Dedication Page + [V]-XXX + half-title + [3]-205 + I blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition, [Warda 193]. Kant's three essays on the dispute between the faculties of Philosophy, Medicine, Law and Theology. He tries to reconcile these last three with philosophy while simultaneously examining the relationship of each to governmental policies and human affairs. Kant examines the conflict between theology and religious faith, and how philosophy and reason deal with both. He asks the questions: "Is the human race improving? And, if not, what then?" The last essay was previously published in Von der Macht der Gemuths. CONDITION: Very good or better in original marbled paper boards. Faded label to spine. Light edge wear. Pages bright internally. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. “What is Thinking?” KANT, Immanuel, “Was heißt: sich im Denken orientiren?” (What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?), in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude und Spener, Berlin, 1786. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 111]. First printing of Kant's 'Orientation' essay, his contribution to the so-called 'Pantheismusstreit', the controversy that had arisen between Moses Mendelssohn and F.H. Jacobi over Lessing's alleged Spinozism. Kant takes Mendelssohn's side. CONDITION: Very good or better Includes frontispiece portrait. In contemporary pale boards, rubbed at extremities and corners worn, spine a little darkened, with gilt rules and red label, early owner's name on title-page, outer leaves slightly foxed, elsewhere uniform light age-toning. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Kant’s Masterpiece: Arguably the Most Important Philosophical Work in Modern Times KANT, Immanuel, Critik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, Riga, 1781. 1 blank leaf + TP + 2 leaves = Dedication + 8 leaves = Vorrede + 1 leaf = Inhalt + [1]-856 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition [Warda 59]. PMM 226 Kant’s masterpiece, the book that made him world-famous, and arguably the most important book of philosophy published in modern times. “Kant’s great achievement was to conclude finally the line on which philosophical speculation had proceeded in the eighteenth century, and to open up a new and more comprehensive system of dealing with the problems of philosophy’” (PMM, p. 137). Having been woken from his “dogmatic slumbers” by his reading of Hume, Kant went on to effect a “Copernican” revolution in philosophy – the effects of which have not yet subsided. In a letter to… Read More

Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Important French Translation of the Qur’an; Same Edition Owned by Dostoevsky KASIMIRSKI, M [Tr.]. Le Koran (Qur’an). Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Editeur, 1847. 1 blank leaf + TP + 1 - 539 + 1 blank leaf. Small octavo. Nouvelle Edition. Albin de Biberstein Kasimirski was French translator and author who studied Eastern and Arabic traditions. Jean-Pierre Pauthier commissioned Kasimirski to translate the Qur’an as part of a larger initiative to gather the sacred books of Confucianism, Hinduism, and Islam. Kasimirski’s translation, first published in 1840, built on the earlier translations done by the Italian cleric Louis Maracci and the English scholar George Sale. CONDITION: Very good to near fine in half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Very light wear to edges. Marbled endpapers. Internally, pages are exceptionally clean and bright. MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, 1855. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Kierkegaard's '”Midnight Cry” for the Rejection of State ChristianityKIERKEGAARD, Søren. Dette skal siges; saa vaere det da sagt (This Must Be Said; So Let It Now Be Said), C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1855. Original front wraps + TP + [3]-12 + original rear wrap, small Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 177).The verso of front and rear wraps contain a list of Kierkegaard's works, including the pseudonymous titles available from Reitzel, and indicating what edition is current."Kierkegaard's 'midnight cry' in which he councils Christians to demand that the Church confess and cleanse itself before they will participate any longer in its worship. (Wronoski, p. 28)CONDITION: Very good in original wraps. Edgewear and some minor loss to corners of wrappers. Scarce.  CONDITION: Very good in original wraps. Edgewear and some minor loss to corners of wrappers.… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1838. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. First Edition of Kierkegaard’s First BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Af en endnu Levendes Papirer (From the Papers of One Still Living), C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1838. 1 blank leaf + TP + Half-title ("On Andersen as a Novelist with Constant Reference to his Work: Only a Fiddler") + iii-x = Forord + [1]-79, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 6).Kierkegaard's first book published "against his will" (as noted on TP)."Kierkegaard's first book, a rather merciless ad hominem attack on the great children's storyteller Hans Christian Andersen's attempt at a serious novel, Kun en Spillemand (Only a Fiddler). The work's importance - an old joke has it that only Kierkegaard and Andersen read the book - lies less in the critique of Andersen's novel than in its presentation, in tentative but recognizable form, of Kierkegaard's theory of the individual, or rather,… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzels,, 1859. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. En Bladartikel (A Newspaper Article), C. A. Reitzels, Kjøbenhavn, 1859. Original front wrap + TP + [3]-[16] + original rear wrap, small Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 287). Original Wrappers."A brief work reprinting Kierkegaard's article "A Passing Comment on a Detail in Don Juan", which originally appeared in Fatherland... and had been omitted from Bladartikel in 1857. An afterthought on Mozart's great opera, sublimely treated at length by Kierkegaard in Either/Or." (Wronoski, p. 30)CONDITION: Very good in original wrappers.. Minor edgewear. CONDITION: Very good in original wrappers.. Minor edgewear.PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, 1847. First Edition. Original boards. Very good. Kierkegaard’s Major Treatment of Christian Ethics “No Love Without Works” Kierkegaard, Soren, Kjerlighedens Gjerninger (Works of Love), C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. 1 blank sheet + TP + [1] = Indhold + [3] = Forord + [5]-224 + TP + [5] = Indhold + [3] = Forord + [7]-203, small Octavo. First Editions of both parts bound in one volume (Himmelstrup 105). "Kierkegaard's major treatment of Christian ethics and one of his most potent criticisms of established Christianity... Kierkegaard here takes issue with the degeneration of Protestant ethics into bourgeois complacency... In short, there is no love without works." (Wronoski, p. 21) CONDITION: Very good in original publishers blue cardboard covers with paper label on the spine. Label with some loss. Boards reattached with archival tape. Lightly foxed throughout. Photos available upon request

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel,, 1847. First edition. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand (Edifying Discourses in a Different Spirit). C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. TP + 1 leaf = Indhold + half-title + TP (En Leiligheds=Tale) + [5] = Forord + [7]-155 + half-title + TP (Hvad vi loere af Lilierne paa Marken og af Himmelens Fugle) + [5] = Forord + [7]-64 + half-title + TP (Lidelsernes Evangelium) + [5] = Indhold + [7] = Forord + [9]- 140, Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 101).Three collected discourses, Purity of the Heart, The Lilies of the Field and The Blessedness that is Promised in Being a Man – all in first editions and each with its own title page.CONDITION: Very good or better in contemporary ½ cloth with black marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Top ½ inch of front free end paper excised. Pages bright and clean, much less foxing than is usual in Kierkegaard’s books. A very good+ copy of these three… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1841. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. The Rare First Edition, First Issue of Kierkegaard’s Second BookKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates (On the Concept of Irony, with Constant References to Socrates), P.G. Philipsens Forlag, Kjøbenhavn, 1841. TP (with note regarding Kierkegaard's candidacy for Master of the Arts and the date above Sibbern's name on the verso of TP) + second TP in Latin (with hand written date in Roman numerals) + [i]-[ii] = Theses (in Latin) + [iii] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-350, small Octavo. First Edition, First Issue (Himmelstrup 8).The rare early issue with the second title page in Latin. "Kierkegaard's second book, his dissertation in theology, presented at the University of Copenhagen. In this work, Kierkegaard invidiously contrasts the irony of Socrates with the comparatively palliated and world-weary irony of the romantics. Irony constitutes… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C.A. Reitzel, 1843. First edition. Very Good +. First Edition of Kierkegaards RepetitionKIERKEGAARD, Soren. Gjentagelsen. Et forføg i den experimenterende Psychologi auf Constantin Constantius. (Repetition. An Essay in Experimental Psychology). C.A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1843. 1 blank leaf + TP + [3]-157 + 1 blank leaf, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 53)."A pseudonymous aesthetic work, published on the same day as Fear and Trembling. Lowrie viewed 'repetition' as the most important and most puzzling term in Kierkegaard's vocabulary. It is associated with natural repetition, with the young lover's futile efforts to repeat particular experiences, and with the stories of Abraham, who receives his son back, and of Job, who receives everything back. But as Lowrie notes, for Kierkegaard, such physical repetition matters only insofar as it may lead to an intuition of repetition as a religious category, 'a movement in virtue of the absurd' through which the individual achieves a second,… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel,, 1847. First edition. original boards. Very Good +. KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand (Edifying Discourses in a Different Spirit). C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1847. TP + 1 leaf = Indhold + half-title + TP (En Leiligheds=Tale) + [5] = Forord + [7]-155 + half-title + TP (Hvad vi loere af Lilierne paa Marken og af Himmelens Fugle) + [5] = Forord + [7]-64 + half-title + TP (Lidelsernes Evangelium) + [5] = Indhold + [7] = Forord + [9]- 140, Octavo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 101).Three collected discourses, Purity of the Heart, The Lilies of the Field and The Blessedness that is Promised in Being a Man – all in first editions and each with its own title page.CONDITION: Very good or better in original publisher's blue card boards. spine chipped and much of the original spine label worn. Uncut and partly unopened frontboard loose, spineworn. Pages bright and clean, much less foxing than is usual in… Read More

Kjøbenhavn: C. A. Reitzel, 1844. First printing. Wraps. Very Good. KIERKEGAARD, Soren. Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi. auf Johannes Climacus. (Philosophical Fragments or Fragments of Philosophy), C. A. Reitzel, Kjøbenhavn, 1844. TP + [3]-164, 12mo. First Edition (Himmelstrup 62)."An 'objective' treatment of Christianity and of man's relation to spiritual truth... Kierkegaard offer a philosophy of scraps or of what is scrapped in opposition to idealism and systematics. As against the idealistic tradition from Plato through Fichte and Hegel, which holds that man possesses an inward truth or an immediate awareness of the divine, Kierkegaard sees humanity in a state of sin and untruth...The most didactic of the aesthetic works, though still treating the thorniest problems of Western Philosophy with unrivaled elegance. Kierkegaard anticipates one of the key themes of 20th Century thought, that of 'the other' or the remainder, residue or… Read More

Moscow: Publishing House of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets R., K. Deputies, 1919. First Edition. Wraps. Good. KOLLONTAI, Alexandra Mikhailovna, [New Woman] [The New Morality and the Working Class] , Publishing House of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets R., K. Deputies, Moscow, 1919. TP + 3 - 61 + 1 blank leaf. Octavo. FIRST EDITION. A collection by the famous Russian revolutionary and feminist Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai. The author popularizes works of European literature that develop the "new woman" who defends her right to freedom of feeling. Contains three parts: The New Woman; Love and a New Morality; The Relationship Between the Sexes and the Class Struggle. Such ideas are considered an important part of the socialist and feminist thought of the early 20th century. The origins come from Kollontai's thoughts that declaring a woman equal does not make her equal; beyond making political and economic reforms,… Read More