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Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1841. First Edition. original boards. Very good. First Edition of Feuerbachs Most Celebrated Work FEUERBACH, Ludwig. Das Wesen des Christenthums (The Essence of Christianity). Otto Wigand, Leipzig, 1841. TP + [II]- X = Vorwort + [XI]-XII = Inhalt + [XIII] = Druchfehler (Corrections) + [1]-450, Octavo. First Edition. Feurerbachs most celebrated work, which had a decisive influence on Marx and Engels. According to Engels, the crucial turning point for Hegelian philosophy was the publication of Feuerbachs Das Wesen des Christenthums in 1841; the work propelled Feuerbach into fame as the leading young Hegelian. Feuerbachs study led him to conclude that religion is a dream of human, not divine, development. He regarded religion as one of the forms of human thought and action by which man raised himself above the animal Feuerbach tried to determine the purely human significance of all mythological thought. He professed to be a unifomitarian in religious matters that is, he denied… Read More

Paris: Bossange père, P. Mongie, 1830. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Rare Supplement to Le Nouveau Monde FOURIER, Charles. Le Nouveau Monde Industriel, ou Invention du Procédé d'Industrie attrayante et combinée, distribuée en séries passionnées, LIVRET D’ANNONCE. Paris: Bossange père, P. Mongie, 1830. 1 blank leaf + [577] - 664 + 8 leaves = advertisements. Octavo. First Edition in original wrappers. Original edition of the scarce 88-page “Livret D’Annonce” (The New Industrial World: announcement booklet) which continues the pagination from the 1829 text, from 578 to 664. This supplement was done at the request of many friends of Fourier who wanted him to complete what they perceived to be unfinished thoughts from the original book. Scarce in original wrappers. CONDITION: Very good in original green wrappers, lightly chipped edges and some minor loss to spine. Light foxing. Pages clean. Mostly unopened. MORE PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Wien: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag,, 1930. First edition. Very Good +. FREUD, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Civilization and Its Discontents). Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Wien, 1930. Half-title + TP + [5]-136. Octavo. First Edition. One of Freud’s most intensely studied and influential books, Civilization and Its Discontents, takes the foundational principles of psychoanalysis and applies them to man and his place in society. In this seminal book, Freud enumerates his understanding of the fundamental tensions that exist between civilization and the individual. The primary friction arises from the individual's quest for instinctual freedom and civilization's contrary demand for conformity and instinctual repression. Many of humankind's primitive instincts are clearly harmful to the well-being of a human community. As a result, civilization creates laws that prohibit killing, rape, and adultery, and it implements… Read More

Leipzig/Wien/Zürich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1927. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. Freud Describes Religion as an Illusion without a FutureFREUD, Sigmund. Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Leipzig/Wien/Zürich, 1927. Half-title + TP + 5-91 + [93]-[95] = Publisher’s ads, Octavo. First Edition. In this famous assessment, Freud describes religion as an illusion, as wishes that are the "fulfillments of the oldest, strongest, and most urgent wishes of mankind.”. To differentiate between an illusion and an error, he lists scientific beliefs such as "Aristotle's belief that vermin are developed out of dung" as errors, but "the assertion made by certain nationalists that the Indo-Germanic race is the only one capable of civilization" is an illusion, simply because of the wishing involved. Religion, according to Freud, is an outshoot of the… Read More

Leipzig/Wien/Zürich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1924. First edition. Wraps. Very Good +. FREUD, Sigmund. Zur Einfuhrung des Narzißmus (Study of Narcissism). Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, Leipzig/Wien/Zürich, 1924. Half-title + TP + [3] – 35 + [37] - [40] = Publisher’s ads, Octavo. First Edition. Freud’s theories on narcissism and its relationship to sexual development. This text first appeared as an article in Psychoan (1914), here in its first edition as a separate text. In this essay, Freud asserts the idea that narcissism is a necessary intermediate stage of sexual development between auto-eroticism and object love. An important short text of Freud, and a near fine copy for the Freud completest.CONDITION: Very good+ in original printed brown wrappers. Minor chipping along spine.  PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST