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The great ImFebruar 1860, was the significant day of my life. I entered a bookstore and

flipping through the books arried from !eip"ig fresh.

#ince I find idea of #chopenhauer$s world as %illeund.

#chopenhauer& %ho was #chopenhauer& I had neer heard the name. I leafed through the

factory, I read of the answered in the negatie of the will to lie, find many famous 'uotes in

a te(t which makes me dream)biased. I forget my enironment and drown. *Finally, I say+

what is the book& 6 -ucats. ere is money. /)me take my treasure and fall as a madman

from the store home, woich cut the first band infieberhafter did and began to read from the

beginning. It was a bright day, when I stopped I had read on and on all night. In+ %infried

. 23ller #eyfarth ed.4+ 5 the modern pessimists as decadents of iet"sche to orstmann.4

!yrics to the reception history of 7hilipp main !anders of redemption. %3r"burg 19, #. 9)

119, here+ 7. 84 :nglish4

These lines are from a compilation of autobiographical fragments of the philosopher 7hilip

2ainl;nder 18en now e(ist in this form and almost?4 completely in

the @eorg Alms Berlag for the first time in four olumes. %ho is familiar with the life and

work of 7hilip main !anders also only to a small e(tent, can appreciate that it by no means is

the rows aboe a philosophical or purely biographical footnote, but to a 'uasi reial

e(perience of olyrood. Cut is anything but a pure :pigone of #chopenhauer 7hilipp

2ainl;nder e runs oer but its thinking in the 5 consistently D pessimism of the history of

philosophy.

In this light the editor work of %infried . 23ller #eyfahrths is to recogni"e which it has set

itself the task to browse in the darkness of the late 1th century, to snatch the one or other

thinkers from obliion, and with the four)olume work of the writings of 7hilipp main

!anders way stone a first mark on the the began again to educator ) similar is planned for

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new edition, which ery likely for years to come that will be ground)breaking and only hae

seeral)fold enhanced not only the already significant achieement the 7ublisher %infried .

23ller #eyfarths, a pupil of Franco Bolpi, who as 2ainl;nder professional stands out, but

also simplifies the scientific handling of this thinker. The final point is a work directory which

ust with regard to a scientific dispute about the publications by %infried . 23ller #eyfarths

5 the modern pessimists than dLcadentsG by iet"sche to orstmann. !yrics to the reception

history of 7hilipp 2ainl;nders of salation. %3r"burg 19 and ) dissertation ) apology of

self e(tinction. :thics and metaphysics in 7hilipp 2ainl;nder theory of decay. Gngel Hreek M

FrankfurtM2.M #t. 7eter 7ort in 16, to e(tend information from secondary sources would

hae been includes ust the former on the one hand more difficult te(ts and fragments of and

to 7hilipp 2ainl;nder such as the input 'uote4 and are the stand of their appearance inoice

bearing, on the other hand, mention to find a ery good oeriew of the bibliographic oerall

situation, so it deseres to sic, in such a catalogue of works and not only in the footnotes, the

pros and epilogues. An the other hand the editor %infried . 23ller #eyfarth is an instructie

and as a successful introduction into thinking 7hilip main !anders read preface, the first three

olumes each and the fourth tape an afterword to the :dition history back on.

The focus of the :dition history interested reader of #chopenhauer is to draw the latter

afterword on two points. An the one hand, that father Grthur lifting Kahimi, @eorg prettier,

18< adopted as the 7ublisher of the third edition of the first and the second edition of the

second olume of the philosophy of redemption. #econdly, it is important to show some a few

small :dition historical corrections+ so :.g. a separate second edition is in the year 1886 of the

first olume #chriflen ol.

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the circumstances of the publication, as they are still 'uite honored by Atto Orth Atto

Orth+ la famille mainl;nder in4+ Grchiio di psichiatria, scien"e penali ed antropologia.

BAI. 1J Turin, 1814, p.