HØFFDING, HARALD.
Erkendelsesteori og Livsopfattelse.
København, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1925.
8vo. In the original printed wrappers. With two dedications to front wrapper. "Fru professorinde A. Ellemann / venligst fra / Harald Høffding" and "Hr Professor A. Pais / venligst fra Jørgen Kalckar". (i.e. English: "Professor A. Ellemann / from / Harald Høffding" and Professor A Pais / from Jørgen Kalckar"). I "Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Filosofiske Meddelser II, 1". Front wrapper partly detached and missing upper part of spine. Internally fine and clean. 123 pp.
First edition of Høffding’s work on epistemology and perception of life. The present copy was given to Professor A. Ellemann from the author. Later it was given to Abraham Pais, author of several books on Physics and physicists, to Jørgen Kalckar, author and physicists. Harald Høffding (1843-1931) was one of the leading Danish philosophers of the turn of the century. His philosophy is greatly inspired by positivism, which around 1900, mainly due to Avenarius and Mach, came to be synonymous with empiriocriticism.
Høffding had met Avenarius for the first time in Zürich and met him again in 1895 in Skodsborg (the time for which Avenarius thanks him in the presentation-inscription), a small city along the coast North of Copenhagen. Høffding describes this encounter in his "Contemporary Philosophers" from 1904. He describes how Avenarius sought ease in cities of water and writes how their meeting in Skodsborg constituted the first time that Avenarius made him acquainted with "pure experience", when walking around together in the garden of acclimatization. Avenarius died two years later. Høffding clearly admired the great thinker and describes Avenarius' character as "a rare energy of thought united with an artistic taste and an open and calm character". Avenarius' philosophy is further described by Høffding in his great work "The History of Newer Philosophy" (1894-95).
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