Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Anhang: Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche (Human, All Too Human A Supplement: Mixed Opinions and Maxims)

Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1879. First edition. Very Good +/none. The Second “Aphoristic” Work – the “Anhang” to MenschlischesNIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Anhang: Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche (Human, All Too Human A Supplement: Mixed Opinions and Maxims). Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1879. TP + [3]-163. Octavo. First Edition (Schaberg 31).There were approximately 350 copies of the first edition in the first issue state.The present work was conceived as an addendum to the previous book and it continues Nietzsche’s incisive observations and evaluations on any number of topics, once again presented in the famous aphoristic style that characterizes these works of Nietzsche’s middle period, the works for “free spirits.” Nietzsche saw this book so integrally as a continuation of the first Menschliches Allzumenschliches that he suggested to his publisher that it simply continue the pagination where the previous book had left off, though Schmeitzner persuaded him against the idea. The philosopher’s presentation of his insights in what appears at first glance as a random assortment of loosely related fragments was a strategic decision. Even though he viewed his era as a decadent one, in which a unitary world-view was difficult if not impossible, and that the philosopher of his day could at best hope to illuminate a few spaces neglected in the great systems of the past, he was also writing in self-conscious defiance of the great systems, the works of Kant, Hegel and Spinoza, trying to retrieve the danger of real thought from the lethargy of thinking in which every question is already answered by reference to the system before it is even posed. CONDITION: Contemporary ½ morocco binding with gilt lettering to restored spine. Decorative endpapers. Very good. This is a tight, very clean & beautiful copy. Lacking the advertisements. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Contemporary ½ morocco binding with gilt lettering to srestored pine. Decorative endpapers. Very good. This is a tight, very clean & beautiful copy. Lacking the advertisements.