The great ImFebruar 1860, was the significant day of my life.

I entered a bookstore and flipping through the books arri ed from !eip"ig fresh. #ince I find idea of #chopenhauer$s world as %illeund. #chopenhauer& %ho was #chopenhauer& I had ne er heard the name. I leafed through the factory, I read of the answered in the negati e of the will to li e, find many famous 'uotes in a te(t which makes me dream)biased. I forget my en ironment 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 stopped0 I had read on and on all night. 1In+ %infried .. 23ller #eyfarth 1ed.4+ 5 the modern pessimists as decadents of 6iet"sche to .orstmann.4 !yrics to the reception history of 7hilipp main !anders of redemption. %3r"burg 1889, #. 89) 119, here+ 7. 884 1:nglish4

These lines are from a compilation of autobiographical fragments of the philosopher 7hilip 2ainl;nder 118<1)18=64, whose #chri>en now e(ist in this form and 1almost?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 abo e a philosophical or purely biographical footnote, but to a 'uasi re i al e(perience of .olyrood. Cut is anything but a pure :pigone of #chopenhauer0 7hilipp 2ainl;nder .e runs o er 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 18th century, to snatch the one or other thinkers from obli ion, 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

Eulius Cahnsen. Cut also with respect to a almost already archaeologically to endless acti ities, hide but behind these new and partly first preprints of #chri>en of this forgotten thinker in the final fourth gang inaccessible sources, %infried .. 23ller)#eyfarths power to recognise+ the first olume was published in 1886 and the output in 1888 to a degree gefuhrt, the fourth olume using Eoachim .oells. The present collection of the #chri>en will meet her subFect e(hausti ely+ probably all thinking 7hilipp main !anders significant te(ts found here together and arranged in such a way that the whole thing remains the readers perspecti e rich o erall impression in memory. The four olumes published in e(tremely appealing facilities represent a in its publication the first editions of the published works of 7hilipp main landers in photomechanischer reproduction, were chronologically which the philosophy of redemption. First band 118=64, the philosophy of redemption. #econd band 118864 and the third olume of the #criptures+ The last .ohenstaufen. G dramatic poem in three parts+ :n"o)2anfred ) Hampos no 118=64. An the other hand a new and first edition is the fourth gang of writings of te(ts based on the handwritten templates on the one hand, and by inIeitschriften and daily newspapers of the late 18th and early J0th century published and also to date still not published te(ts of 7hilipp main !anders on the other hand. The way and abo e all the type of te(t sources, is the font of the first editions in the first three books remains, so that only the fourth olume is notable for Gnti'ua. Arthography and grammar were compared to the

templates but in any of the four olumes the current rules adapted, representing neither a proposal nor a disad antage, because 7hilipp 2ainl;nder not its terminology 5 orthographically interpretati ely D used. *Hhronicling o er iew to 7hilipp main!anders life towards the end of the last olume,

-ie2acht of the motifs, completes the o erall picture, which impresses with :#7KIT in bold type, that although, 7hilipp 2ainl;nder is born *)passi isch), not but also dies, but, life takes *)akti isch 1writings ol. <, <=Jf.4.,G list or a detailed thing word register of ierC;nde this

new edition, which ery likely for years to come that will be ground)breaking and only ha e se eral)fold enhanced not only the already significant achie ement 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 Fust with regard to a scientific dispute about the publications by %infried .. 23ller #eyfarths 5 the modern pessimists than dLcadentsG by 6iet"sche to .orstmann. !yrics to the reception history of 7hilipp 2ainl;nders of sal ation. %3r"burg 1889 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 1886, to e(tend information from secondary sources would ha e been includes Fust the former on the one hand more difficult te(ts and fragments of and to 7hilipp 2ainl;nder 1such as the input 'uote4 and are the stand of their appearance in oice bearing, on the other hand, mention to find a ery good o er iew of the bibliographic o erall situation, so it deser es 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 instructi e 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, 188< 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 1#chriflen ol. <, <=<4 not erifiable. G not pro en here second edition of this olume already 18=8 is detectable ) and this from two publishers. This second edition of the first olume of 18=8 and the first, published already in 188JM89 were in 1886 to the second olume of readings the final reading of this second olume 1s.a. writings ol. J, B4 added, before NOnit"er this ) again 1886 ) in its final form ) "ugestandenerma>en edited 1see below4

the circumstances of the publication, as they are still 'uite honored by Atto .Orth 1Atto .Orth+ la famille mainl;nder in4+ Grchi io di psichiatria, scien"e penali ed antropologia. BAI. 1J 1Turin, 18814, p. <8<)<8<4 are described and closely with the person of sister 2inna Cat" are linked more than ad enturous. Glso the interested reader can be itself 'uite 'uickly informed 1complete list of @erman)language literature+ 1=00)1810, ol. 8J, p. 1=<4, that the last .ohenstaufen were relocated in the years 18=6 and 18=8 in first and #econd :dition. )For the introduction of the fourth olume, -ie2acht of the motifs, %infried .. 23ller #eyfarth was the @iessen Gnglicists, literary critic, writer and 5 thinkers of the Gnthropofugalen D Plrich .orstmann, or the epilogue the Cerlin Thomas Cernhard researcher Eoachim .oell, which as mentioned also as co)editor of this fourth olume records, win. 7re)and afterword of the band form the clamp around a collection of literary te(ts, which wraps the genre of drama as well as those of the poem, no el and autobiography. *Plrich .orstmann turns out still ery beautiful the interpenetration of philosophy and literature under the primacy of the former in the thinking 7hilipp main landers, as Eoachim .oell howe er attempts little understanding, these primarily as, poet *to establish 1#chri>en ol. <, <614, he had distinguished himself before 18Q=MQ8 as a teenager drama writer., #uch as do interpretations of Eoachim .oells, the parado( of his RmainlandersS wrong education is to educate people as 'uickly as possible, so that they recogni"e their own misery and ha e the freedom to redeem himself., 1%ritings ol. <, <6J04 2.@. barrier.4 more indie astray and are little help. #ince it is not last Fust such approaches 7hilipp main landers, which show his uni'ue in the history of %estern philosophy adaptation of Cuddhism. *Kele ant would be at this point, if the, @erman debate *1writings ol. <, <614 at the end of this four) olume series into a larger design not only the last .ohenstaufen 1writings ol. 94 but also the philosophical comedy