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Pourquoi la Guerre? Einstein & Freud Letters
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Pourquoi la Guerre? Einstein & Freud Letters

$1,000.00

Two of the greatest minds of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, met for the first time in Berlin in 1926. At the request of the International Institute of Cooperation, the two men started a correspondence at the beginning of the 1930s. The intent was to create a conversation in the service of peace with the two preeminent intellectual voices of the time. What resulted was a conversation dealing with the question of the psychological roots of war.

There were 3000 copies printed in total, in English, German and French. The Nazis banned the publication immediately, burning the German-language copies. This is a scarce, limited-edition copy of the French-language publication.

 

Categories: First Edition, French, Letters, Limited Edition, Military, Philosophy
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This is #281 of a limited printing of  3000 copies of Pourquoi la Guerre? (62 numbered pages), published by the Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle in March, 1933.

This is one of the french language copies of this first edition, published in French, English and German, of the 1932 correspondence between Albert Einstein (July) and Sigmund Freud (September) regarding the origins and nature of wars. Issued two weeks after the ascension to power of the Nazi regime, with Hitler at its head, this was immediately banned in Germany, with almost all the German-language copies burned by the Nazis.

The cover (app. 6.5″ x 9″) has sunning to its borders, shallow wear to the ends of the more notably sunned spine, and pencil notations to the top of the back cover. There are no deep tears or prominent stains. The lettering and art are unfaded and legible.

The inside is very good, with no stamps or other attachments, no writing or notations. There are a few cracked gutters, but no loose and no missing pages. There is border sunning, which is mostly light, but no other notable stains. There are no page tears and few creases, none of which are significant. The above photos, of this copy, are accurate reflections its conditions.

The accompanying photos are accurate reflections of the book conditions.

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