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‎Nietzsche. 2 Bde. - [NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY AS THE METAPHYSICS OF OUR TIMES]‎

‎Stuttgart, Neske, 1961. 8vo. 2 orig. black full cloth w. orig. orange dust-jackets, white and black lettering to spines and front. A very good set w. only minor bumping to upper capital of vol. 1, otherwise near min, in- as well as externally. 661, (3)" 492, (2) pp.‎

‎The first edition of Heidegger's famous Nietzsche-book, in which he equals Nietzsche's notion of the super-human with the realization of modern technical humanity.Like his lectures on Nietzsche in the 1930'ies and '40'ies, the work also focuses on Nietzsche's posthumously published fragments ""Die Wille zur Macht"" (""The Will to Power""). According to Heidegger, these fragments form the culmination of Western Metaphysics, -though Metaphysics when turned upside-down, but far from abolished.""Nietzsche denkt das, was die metaphysische Tradition das Sein des Seienden nennt, als den ewig wiederkehrenden Willen zur Macht. Durch den Gedanken-Gang zum Willen zur macht zieht Nietzshe eine ""Spur"" in die ""Geschichte des Seins"" und d.h. ""in die noch unbegangenen Bezirke künftiger Entscheidungen"" (I, 475)."" (Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers).With the word ""Sein"" (""Being""), Heidegger seems to have coined the ""essence"" of European thought. Metaphysically ""Sein"" is put into words as the ""Wahrheit des Seienden"" (""The Truth of Being"") in European thought. According to Heidegger, also Nietzsche's philosophy of thought is Metaphysics, but not Metaphysics as a particular philosophical discipline, rather Metaphysics as the ""Wahrheit über das Seiende"" (the truth about that, which is). Thus viewed, Nietzsche's philosophy becomes the Metaphysics of our times.‎

‎Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses. Prolegomena zu einer Kritik der reinen Erfahrung. Habilitationsschrift der philosophischen Facultät der Universotät zu Leipzig vorgelegt und als Einleitung zu der 10. Januar... - [INFLUENCING NIETZSCHE]‎

‎Leipzig, Fues's Verlag, 1876. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers. Right-bottom corner on frontwrapper slightly bumped. Otherwise fine and clean. XIII, (1), 82 pp.‎

‎The very scarce first printing of Avenarius' Habilitationsschrift, his first publication, a work that greatly influenced contemporary philosophy, both in Europe and beyond, and was read by the greatest philosophers of the era, e.g. Nietzsche.The German philosopher Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) is most famous for his formulation of the radical positivist doctrine of ""empirical criticism"" or ""empirio-criticism"". He was not only read and studied in France and Germany but also greatly influenced Russian philosophy"" he and was severely criticized by Lenin in his Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909). In his first publication ""Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses"", Avenarius states: ""Doubt of the correctness of my way heretofore pursued was induced through the barrenness of theoretical idealism in the field of psychology"" and yet cognition and experience should belong to this science as psychological ideas."" In general he here argues that it is the task of philosophy to develop a natural concept of the world based on ""pure experience"" and the principle of ""economic thought"". ""Nietzsche received Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses in 1876, ""and we know that he read it for the first or second time in the winter of 1883-84. Nietzsche then excerpted and discussed this reading in several longer notes, and shortly thereafter he wrote to Overbeck on April 7, 1884, stating that he needed to revise his views on epistemology and metaphysics. It is thus possible that this reading was of great importance for his thinking at the time. [...] section 14 and 15 of Beyond Good and Evil, with their critique of positivism and physiologist who emphasized the ""smallest possible effort"", were written in response to Nietzsche´s reading of Avenarius."" (Brobjer Thomas H., Nietzsche's Philosophical Context, University of Illinois Press 2008, 93 pp.)‎

‎Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses. Prolegomena zu einer Kritik der reinen Erfahrung. Habilitationsschrift der philosophischen Facultät der Universotät zu Leipzig vorgelegt und als Einleitung zu der 10. Januar... - [INFLUENCING NIETZSCHE]‎

‎Leipzig, Fues's Verlag, 1876. 8vo. A bit later black cloth binding with green gilt leather title-label to front board. Title-page on a stuband with a bit of soiling. XIII, (1), 82 pp.‎

‎The very scarce first printing of Avenarius' Habilitationsschrift, his first publication, a work that greatly influenced contemporary philosophy, both in Europe and beyond, and was read by the greatest philosophers of the era, e.g. Nietzsche.The German philosopher Richard Avenarius (1843-1896) is most famous for his formulation of the radical positivist doctrine of ""empirical criticism"" or ""empirio-criticism"". He was not only read and studied in France and Germany but also greatly influenced Russian philosophy"" he and was severely criticized by Lenin in his Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909). In his first publication ""Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses"", Avenarius states: ""Doubt of the correctness of my way heretofore pursued was induced through the barrenness of theoretical idealism in the field of psychology"" and yet cognition and experience should belong to this science as psychological ideas."" In general he here argues that it is the task of philosophy to develop a natural concept of the world based on ""pure experience"" and the principle of ""economic thought"". ""Nietzsche received Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses in 1876, ""and we know that he read it for the first or second time in the winter of 1883-84. Nietzsche then excerpted and discussed this reading in several longer notes, and shortly thereafter he wrote to Overbeck on April 7, 1884, stating that he needed to revise his views on epistemology and metaphysics. It is thus possible that this reading was of great importance for his thinking at the time. [...] section 14 and 15 of Beyond Good and Evil, with their critique of positivism and physiologist who emphasized the ""smallest possible effort"", were written in response to Nietzsche´s reading of Avenarius."" (Brobjer Thomas H., Nietzsche's Philosophical Context, University of Illinois Press 2008, 93 pp.)‎

‎Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart. - [""WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PHILOSOPHICAL WORK TO HAVE APPEARED IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS"" - NIETZSCHE]‎

‎Iserlohn, J Baedeker, 1866 [but 1865]. 8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and back hindge loose. First 12 pp with light occassional brownspotting. Otherwise a fine copy. XVI, 563, (1) pp. ‎

‎Rare first edition of Lange's seminal work on materialism which had profound influence on Nietzsche who stated that it ""without a doubt [was] the most significant philosophical work to have appeared in the last hundred years"" (Letter to Muschacke). ""Nietzsche never 'broke' with Lange's thought at any point in his career as he did with other influences"" (Constancio, Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity).""Lange's most famous book, The History of Materialism and Critique of its Contemporary Significance, is in essence a defense of such a return to Kant. It is also a detailed history of materialism (and was read well into the twentieth century for precisely this reason). However, more fundamentally, it was meant to drive home the above mentioned concerns about materialism. Lange accepted materialism as a sensible maxim for the construction of theories within natural science. However, as a comprehensive philosophical system, as both fundamental ontology and epistemology, materialism is self-undermining."" (Stanford)In 'Geschichte des Materialismus' Lange adopted the Kantian standpoint that we can know nothing but phenomena, Lange maintains that neither materialism nor any other metaphysical system has a valid claim to ultimate truth. For empirical phenomenal knowledge, however, which is all that humans can look for, materialism with its exact scientific methods has done most valuable service. Ideal metaphysics, though they fail of the inner truth of things, have a value as the embodiment of high aspirations, in the same way as poetry and religion. Lange replaced the transcendental subject of Kantianism by the organism, although he considered that this substitution validated all the more Kant's philosophy that ‎

‎Nietzsche als Philosoph. Vierte vom Verfasser durchges. Aufl.‎

‎Berlin, 1916. Orig. wrappers. Back worn and with tears. With dedication from the author to Dr. Koppelmann on frontwrapper. 80 pp.‎