JOURNAL INTIME of HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL/PHILOSOPHY/ 1894

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JOURNAL INTIME of HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL/PHILOSOPHY/ 1894 AMIEL'S JOURNAL: THE JOURNAL INTIME OF HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL, VOLUMES I AND II. TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1894[1885]. Scarce.A nice set of this interesting 2-volume set comprising the private diaries of a Swiss 19th century philosopher and poet who traveled widely and know many of the great European intellectuals of the last 19th century. Published more than 100 years ago, this 2-volume edition is now out-of-print and scarce. Such a nice set is not likely to be available again soon on ebay. From the Introduction: "...Some thousands of sheets of 'Journal,' covering a period of more than thirty years, had come into the hands of Amiel's literary heirs. 'They were written,' said the Advertisement, 'with several ends in view. Amiel recorded in them his various occupations, and the incidents of each day. He preserved in them his psychological observations, and the impressions produced on him by books. But his 'Journal' was, above all, the confidant of his most private and intimate thoughts; a means wby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life; a safe shelter win his questionings of fate and the future, the voice of grief, of self-examination and confession, the soul's cry for inward peace, might make themselves freely heard...In the directions concerning his papers which he left behind him, Amiel expressed the wish that his literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which might seem to them to possess either interest as thought or value as experience. The publication of this volume is the fulfillment of this desire. The reader will find in it, 'not a volume of Memoirs,' but the confidences of a solitary thinker, the meditations of a philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence.'"Thus modestly announced, the little volume made its quiet debut...The writer of the Journal had been during his lifetime wholly unknown to the general European public. In Geneva itself he had been commonly regarded as a man who had signally disappointed the hopes and expectations of his friends, whose reserve and indecision of character had in many respects spoilt his life, and alienated the society around him; while his professorial lectures were generally pronounced dry and unattractive, and the few volumes of poems which represented almost his only contributions to literature had now met with any real cordiality of reception. Those concerned, tfore, in the publication of the first volume of the 'Journal' can hardly have had much expectation of a wide success...But 'wisdom is justified of her children.' It is now nearly three years since the first volume of the 'Journal Intime' appeared...it is now not too much to say that this remarkable record of a life has made its way to what promises to be a permanent place in literature..."According to wikipedia: " Henri Fr�d�ric Amiel ( September 27 , 1821 - May 11 , 1881 ) was a Swiss philosopher , poet and critic.Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes . After losing his parents at an early age, Amiel travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of Europe , and made a special study of German philosophy in Berlin . In 1849 he was appointed professor of aesthetics at the academy of Geneva, and in 1854 became professor of moral philosophy . These appointments, conferred by the democratic party, deprived him of the support of the aristocratic party, which comprised nearly all the culture of the city. This isolation inspired the one book by which Amiel is still known, the Journal Intime ("Private Journal"), which, published after his death, obtained a European reputation. It was translated into English by Mary A. Ward at the instigation of Mark Pattison . Although second-rate as regards productive power, Amiel's mind was of no infe... read more

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