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Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1981. Hardcover. Fine. Nine volumes (complete), all first printings (1981-1986), octavo size, approx. 4250 pp., with accompanying booklet, all text in German. Karl Löwith (1897-1973), student of Husseri and Heidegger, "was one of the most prolific German philosophers of the twentieth century" (n.b., from Wiki).

"His main influences include Heidegger, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. His writing after WWII can be read in the same vein as other Christian philosophers and theologians of the 20th century. Often called responses to 'crisis', Christian intellectuals of this era, such as Karl Barth (Protestant), Florovsky (Orthodox), and Erich Przywara (Roman Catholic), attempted to articulate an understanding of Christian faith in response to the challenges of scientism, secularism, and skepticism" (ibid).

This publication includes his complete works in nine volumes, as follows: Band 1. Mensch und Umwelt; Band 2: Weltgeschichte und Heilsgeschehen; Band 3: Wissen, Glaube und Skepsis; Band 4: Von Hegel zu Nietzsche; Band 5: Hegel und die Aufhebung der Philosophie im 19. Jahrhundert- Max Weber; Band 6: Nietzsche; Band 7: Jacob Burckhardt; Band 8: Heidegger- Denker in dürftiger Zeit; Band 9: Gott, Mensch und Welt in der Philosophie der Neuzeit- G.B. Vico- Paul Valéry.

Accompanying the volumes is a booklet, "Editorische Vorgemerkung", which provides Löwith's curriculum vitae (1959), the contents of each of the nine volumes, a chronological directory, and a few black-and-white reproductions of photographs.

___DESCRIPTION: Volumes bound in light grey cloth over boards, white paper spine labels with black lettering, octavo size (8 3/8" by 5 1/2"), pagination: Band 1, 500 pp., Band 2, 617 pp., Band 3, 469 pp., Band 4, 561 pp., Band 5, 454 pp., Band 6, 555 pp., Band 7, 392 pp., Band 8, 298 pp., and Band 9, 421 pp. The accompanying booklet bound in grey wraps with red and black lettering, staple-bound, measuring 8 3/16" by 5", 30 pp. Please note that all text, both the set and booklet, is in German.

___CONDITION: Fine overall, the boards clean, straight corners without rubbing, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, the interiors clean and bright, the sole prior owner marking we see a small private library label at the top of the front pastedown in the first volume; the label for Band 3 only a darker shade than the rest, a minute spot or two and light dustiness on the text block edges of a few volumes, else fine, most volumes still with that "tight" feel, in appearance unread. The booklet near fine, clean, with a few light creases to the wraps.

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