Product Description
Binding: Original Beacon Press hardcover in dark cloth (or publisher's standard boards ? confirm color if needed).
Clean, tight, and square.
Pages show mild age toning typical of midcentury book.
Dust Jacket: Jacket present (as shown), with the characteristic Beacon Hill imprint.
Moderate wear to edges, light rubbing, but overall bright and intact.
Rear panel text fully legible.
Condition: Book very good; jacket good to very good.
A solid, attractive example of this important mid century Mann study.
Octavo.
A substantial critical study of Thomas Mann's philosophical foundations, with particular emphasis on Schopenhauer's Will and Representation and Mann's reinterpretation through Nietzschean ambivalence.
Includes an admiring blurb by Albert Guerard on the rear panel.
Notes: Kaufmann's work remains one of the more philosophically rigorous treatments of Mann's worldview, especially regarding the dialectic of irony, will, and representation.
Increasingly scarce in jacket.
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