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The Seventh Solitude: Man's Isolation in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky & Nietzsche by Ralph Harper [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1965 • John Hopkins Press

The Seventh Solitude: Man's Isolation in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky & Nietzsche by Ralph Harper [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1965 • John Hopkins Press

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The Seventh Solitude: Man's Isolation in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky & Nietzsche by Ralph Harper

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1965] THE JOHN HOPKINS PRESS

Vintage hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  

Dust jacket shows some general wear, mostly to edges; small sealed tears.  Looks fantastic in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent; looks and reads like new.  Small pink "v" stamp on front endpaper.

In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, author Ralph Harper finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude and philosophical nihilism. 

This is a book about metaphysical homelessness. It appraises the ultimate spiritual isolation that was reached and explored in the nineteenth century by Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Their originality, according to Mr. Harper, consisted in separate but similar insights into man's freedom to choose either eternity or despair.
Spiritual isolation, whether experienced as a sickness unto death, as the demoniacal, or as religious rebellion, represents one of the extreme possibilities open at all times to the human spirit. But not until the nineteenth century was there such a comprehensive awareness of the possible dead ends of speculation and morality.
Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche were all preoccupied with man's freedom to choose ends as well as means, ideas
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