Either or by Kierkegaard Soren: Books, First Edition (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover Paperback with mostly minor reading wear; creasing to spine; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Princeton Paperback Edition 1971, stated. Translated by Walter Lowrie.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 9780060155339. Hardback. First edition as stated. Tight sound reading copy only due to ballpoint underlining throughout; otherwise average wear. Previous owner's name on front endpaper upper edge. One volume abridgment in a new translation. Dustjacket with slight wear to corners and edges; $10.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket; Good condition. No Signature.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in wraps. Very light foxing on top text block edge.

Softcover. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Near Fine in wraps. Foxing to top text block edge. Edited and translated by Howard V. Hong nd Edna H. Hong. ; 8.1 X 5.4 X 1.7 inches; 728 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 465pp Vol 1, 372pp Vol 2. Black and white softcover bindings. Design and typography by Edward Gorey. Bindings secure, spines straight, pages clean and unmarked. Small nick to lower spine end of volume 2. Both volumes otherwise tight, unmarked copies. Two volume set of, "the first published work of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It appeared in two volumes in 1843 under the pseudonymous editorship of Victor Eremita (Latin for "victorious hermit"). It outlines a theory of human existence, marked by the distinction between an essentially hedonistic, aesthetic mode of life and the ethical life, which is predicated upon commitment.". 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. Original rose cloth. First Edition in English. Printing and the Mind of Man 314: he is now generally considered to be . . . one of the most important Christian philosophers. This book is a cornerstone of what has come to be called existentialism. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jackets with chips at the head of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition this translation. Volume 2 only. From the 1843 edition of Either/Or: a Fragment of Life, edited by Victor Eremita - Part Second: Containing the Papers of B, Letters to A. Octavo in red cloth binding. Condition: minor wear; slight cockling but no damp-stains to book block; else good. Pages: xvi, 304.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volume II only. First edition. Date on title page. No additional dates, editions or printings identified. Near fine hardback in near fine dust jacket (Set $7.50). Very light, tiny, coffee colored spotting to fore edge. Dust jacket has water spotting to spine; 1/8th inch missing to top of spine; minor coffee-colored spotting to rear panel; light edge wear primarily to two inches of top edge near spine of front panel. Other minor if not trivial signs of previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second impression of the first English translation of Kierkegaard's first work, which lays out his early theory of human existence as being divisible into an aesthetic mode and ethical one, an internal, subjective life and an external, civic one. Published in two volumes by Oxford University Press in 1946, and translated by David and Lilian Swenson and Walter Lowrie. Some small tears to the dustaackets but overall a lovely pair.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. FIRST. THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. AMERICAN EDITION previous owners stamp to front endpages, dustjacket has some chipping around edges, protected in mylar, Vol 1 Volume 1 translaed by David F.Swenson & Lillian Marvin Swenson 387 pgs, Volume 2 translated by Walter Lowrie 304 pgs, First English Language Edition DATE PUBLISHED: 1944 EDITION: FIRST.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of Soren Kierkegaard's best-known work, Either/Or. Octavo. Two volumes bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; bound without the half-titles. Text in Danish. Very Good rubbing and wear to bindings, neatly rebacked with old spines preserved. Former owner names to preliminary blacks and owner's rubber stamp to title pages. Contents tanned, sporadically foxed and occasionally lightly stained. A lovely set. Either/Or, Danish philosopher Søren Aabye Kierkegaard's groundbreaking first published work. Only 525 copies of this edition were published in 1843 under an editorial pseudonym ("Victor Emerita") at the author's own expense. It was mostly written during his stay in Berlin, where he took notes on Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation. It includes essays of literary and music criticism and a set of romantic-like-aphorisms, as part of his larger theme of examining the reflective and philosophical structure of faith. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. "As a thinker, Kierkegaard had to wait for the twentieth century to find his audience; he is now generally considered to be, however eccentric, one of the most important Christian philosophers," write Carter and Muir in Printing and the Mind of Man.

First English Translation edition. Kierkegaard is widely considered the father of Existentialism and is perhaps the most important Christian philosopher of the past 200 years. Either/Or is largely considered Kierkegaard's magnum opus and contrasts the Aesthetic Life and the Ethical Life. Though his first major philosophical work, it was one of the last to be translated into Englishnot until 1944. Very gentle bump to front corners Volume I, very faint rubbing to extremities, both volumes still fine in near fine, faintly toned dust jackets (NOT price-clipped) with some shallow chipping to corners and tips, in mylar covers. Very clean internally, square and tight binding.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Corners a little bumped, else Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jackets with rubbing and wear along edges. A philosophical masterwork first published in Danish in 1843.

FIRST EDITION. Kierkegaard's Famous "Either-Or" Challenge to Life - PMM 314Volume 1: Half-title + TP + [V]-XX = Forord + [XXI] = Indhold + half-title + [3]-470 + 2 blank leaves; Volume 2: Half-title + TP + 1 leaf = Inhold + half-title + [1]-368 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo, First Edition (Himmelstrup 20).With the often missing half-titles present. This is one of only 525 copies printed of this work."Kierkegaard's third published book and the first of many pseudonymous 'aesthetic' works. Generally regarded as the first major statement of his own unsystematic philosophy, this 'fragment' is a literary and philosophical tour de force incorporating a stunning array of subject matter, literary effects, and moods, including melancholy aphorisms and personal meditation, elaborate musical, dramatic and literary criticism, lyrical effusions, odd essays on unhappiness and boredom, a strange 'Seducer's Diary' and, in the second volume, an extended treatise on marriage, the human personality and the ethical life in the form of a letter from a Judge to a younger man, capped by a sermon sounding a note of radical doubt about both the aesthetic and ethical justifications for existence." (Wronoski, p. 11)"Enten-Eller was written before he was twenty-nine. It is a curious bundle of papers, essays, semi-dialogues and notes, seemingly ill-assorted, but in fact dialectically arranged. Adopting what he called an 'aesthetic attitude' he held that this consisted in balancing possibilities, and that in matters religious and ethical it was up to the individual to make his choice. Choice, as the title of his work suggests, was at the root of Kierkegaard's theory. There can be no system of existence, only a system of ideas. From this he develops his thesis of 'Existence" (since taken up by the modern Existentialist), in which human beings considered as subjects not objects are the only real existence: their reflective as opposed to active nature being focused on the 'acts' of making perpetual decisions" (PMM, pp. 190-91) Printing and the Mind of Man 314. Contemporary embossed cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spines (which have been lightened by the sun). The half title volume one has the author's real name handwritten beneath the pseudonym (Victor Cremita) and someone has tried unsuccessfully to eradicate this - leaving the name and a small dark cloud around it. This failed attempt has bled over to the title page which shows a small cloudy stain in the corresponding location. (See photos.) The title page of volume 2 has a small, faded purple circular stamp (with no lettering) in the lower right corner. Other than these noted imperfections, this is a really lovely copy of this important work in Western Philosophy. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Søren Kierkegaard wrote Either/Or in his late twenties, 'under a variety of pseudonyms (all recognisable), the chief advantage of this method seems to have been to give Kierkegaard the opportunity of letting different sides of his mind converse as individuals with each other, in a semi-Socratic fashion. Without disclosing his real beliefs, he confronted his readers with a choice of different possibilities . Choice, as the title of his work suggests, was at the root of Kierkegaard's theory. There can be no system of existence, only a system of ideas. From this he develops his theory of 'Existence' (since taken up by the modern Existentialists), in which human beings considered as subjects not objects are the only real existence: their reflective as opposed to active nature being focused on the 'acts' of making perpetual decisions' (PMM). The work was originally published in Denmark in 1843 under the title Enten-Eller, a centenary before its first English translation. The present UK edition uses the sheets of the first US edition of the same year with a cancel title page. The UK edition is significantly scarcer than the American edition, having been produced to War Economy Standards with 'Economy' dust jackets printed on the blank verso of recycled Oxford University Press jackets - the present example is printed on the verso of dust jackets of James T. Shortwell's (ed.) Economic and Social History of the World War.