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ADORNO, Theodor W. Zur Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie. Studien über Husserl und die phänomenologischen Antinomien. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1956. Octavo, 251pp. First edition of this work, translated as Against Epistemology: A Metacritique -- Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies. Husserl, whose phenomenological project Adorno regarded as "an attempt to destroy idealism from within," was the only philosopher after Hegel whom Adorno considered the equal of a Schoenberg in music or of a Kafka or Beckett in literature. "Adorno wanted to present the phenomenological antinomies that plainly appeared in the plethora of paradoxical constructs and conceptual links in Husserl, and use them to arrive at a materialist dialectics, as he understood it, as the solution to them." (See Wiggerhaus, The Frankfurt School, 531-2). Here, Adorno revisits the major themes of his Oxford thesis. Free endpapers darkening, else near fine in publisher's cloth and very good+ rose-colored printed dust jacket, spine gently sunned. Inscribed by Adorno in the year of publication, "Fuer Frau Helene von Wiesen (?) mit den herzlichsten ???? Th. W. Adorno. Frankfurt, Dezember 1956."
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BARTHES, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. Otavo, 159pp. Octavo, 159pp. First American edition of Barthes's finely polished gem of cultural criticism, a work akin to, though rather less tortured than Adorno's Minima Moralia in its dissection of bourgeois ideology in a myriad of cultural phenomena. Dust jacket slightly faded, some sunning to spine, otherwise fine.
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BECKETT, Samuel. Molloy. Paris: Minuit, 1951. Small octavo. First edition, the issue on ordinary paper, of Beckett's greatest novel, which he claimed to have conceived on the day Hamish Hamilton rejected Watt, "the day I became aware of my stupidity. Then I began to write the things I feel" (Bair, Beckett, 367). Partially unopened. Pages uniformly darkened as usual with this issue, but mildly so, some foxing to rear panel along spine and top edge, spine modestly sunned, but in all a presentable copy, very good or better in original wraps (and nicer than our description suggests). This copy signed by Beckett at title page.
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BLANCHOT, Maurice. La communaute inavouable. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, (1983). Small octavo, 93pp. First edition, ordinary paper issue, of this late work, much of it devoted to Blanchot's longtime friend, Georges Bataille. Near fine in very mildly spine-sunned glossy white wraps.
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45.00 |
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BLOCH, Marc. Apologie pour l'histoire ou metier d'historien. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1949. Octavo, 110pp. Cahiers des Annales 3, devoted to an essay by the French medievalist. With Lucien Febvre, to whom the present work is dedicated, Bloch founded the epoch-making journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale, and without him, the Annales historians could not have existed. Small chips at spinal extemities and some internal bumps and tears to spine, small chip to top forecorner of front cover. Ownership signature in ink on the half-title. Overall, very good in brown printed wrappers.
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BLOCH, Marc. Apologie pour l'histoire ou metier d'historien. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1949. Octavo, 110pp. Cahiers des Annales 3, devoted to an essay by the French medievalist. With Lucien Febvre, to whom the present work is dedicated, Bloch founded the epoch-making journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale, and without him, the Annales historians could not have existed. Ownership signature of philosopher Victor Gourevitch in ink on the half-title. Text browned, as usual, but a near fine copy in brown printed wrappers.
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CANETTI, Elias. Masse und Macht. Hamburg: Claassen, 1960. Octavo, 568pp. First edition of the cross-disciplinary philosophical masterwork, a psychology of mass behavior, by an author best known for his novels and aphoristic memoirs . Near fine in very good+ dust jacket with occasional surface loss to edges and extremities. Inscribed by Canetti to the Austrian epic novelist Heimito von Doderer, "zur Erinnerung an ein schönes Gesprach in London/Elias Canetti/5 April 1963." A superb association, linking two of Austria's great writers from the mid-20th century across the divide of their politics and origins: Doderer flirted with the Nazis, Canetti was forced to emigrate. The inscription documents an historical encounter of worlds within the world of literature.
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Canetti, Elias. Masse und Macht. Hamburg, Claassen, 1960. Originalausgabe. 568 Seiten. Leinen. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung von Canetti an Klaus-Dietrich Petersen . / Inscribed by the author to Klaus-Dietrich Petersen in 1968. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
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DAUMAL, René. La Grande beuverie. Paris: Gallimard, 1938. Octavo, 156pp. First edition of the only novel published in his lifetime by this visionary poet and mystic, whose lifelong spiritual quest (he died at the age of 36 of tuberculosis) led him to investigate sacred Hindu texts (which he translated from Sanskrit into French) occult phenomena including ESP, drug use, surrealism and, lastingly, the teachings of Gurdieff. The present volume, along with Mount Analogue his chief literary achievement, is a scathing indictment of Western intellectual society and values. Minor darkening to borders, else a very good+ copy in wraps.
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HEIDEGGER, Martin. Nietzsche. Pfullingen: Neske, (1961). Small octavos. Two volumes: 661pp., 493pp. First edition of Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche, in which he perversely insists, though not without interesting results, on treating only Nietzsche's unpublished writings as the repository of his true thought. Near fine in publisher's cloth and dust-jackets.
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