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Eucken, Rudolf [Gell-Mann, Murray]. Die Lebensanschauungen der grossen
Denker [Unterzeichnet; Signed by Eucken; Murray Gell-Mann's Copy] [The
Problem and Development of Human Life as Viewed by the Great Thinkers from
Plato to the Present] eine Entwicklungsgeschichte des Lebensproblems der
Menschheit von Plato bis zur Gegenwart von Rudolf Eucken, Professor in
Jena. Leipzig: Verlag Von Veit & Comp, 1899. First edition thus. A Very
Good copy of the revised and expanded (by Eucken) edition, bound in
three-quarter leather with elegant decorative board and with the
compartmented spine lettered, decorated, and lined in gilt and having a red
title label and a green author label and the page block's closed edges
stained red (some minor edge rubbing, light scuffing to the rear board
leather near the spine, some scuffing to the red spine label, outer board
corners rubbed through, front board lightly curved at the leading
extremities, mild damage to and light residue on the front pastedown
evidently from a bookplate's removal, top portion of the page facing the
title page clipped off), SIGNED BY RUDOLF EUCKEN on the title page -- text
in German; Murray Gell-Mann's copy with Gell-Mann's bookplate to the front
free endpaper. First published in 1890, Eucken, as he explains in his
second and third forwards, revised and expanded the work in 1896 and then
again in 1899. Eucken won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Literature "in
recognition of his earnest search for truth, his penetrating power of
thought, his wide range of vision, and the warmth and strength in
presentation with which in his numerous works he has vindicated and
developed an idealistic philosophy of life". One of Eucken's best-known and
most important works, the book presents and critiques the views of great
philosophers on the problem of human life, including the views of such
thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Kant, and
others. Eucken himself maintained that humans have souls, that they
consequently were at the junction between nature and spirit, and that they
should seek to overcome their non-spiritual natures and work to achieve a
more spiritual life. Murray Gell-Mann won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics
"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of
elementary particles and their interactions". Gell- Mann coined the name
"Quark" for certain elementary particles, naming them after a line in James
Joyce's "Finnegans Wake". [Having determined the sound for the word he
would coin for his discovery, Gell-Mann was for a time uncertain of how he
would choose to spell it, considering, among other possibilities, spelling
the sound as "kwork" until, in what he called one of his "occasional
perusals of Finnegans Wake", he came across the phrase: "Three quarks for
Muster Mark! / Sure he has not got much of a bark / And sure any he has
it's all beside the mark." Thus was born a new and important Scientific
term.] Thus we have one Nobel Prize-winner's copy of another Nobel
Prize-winner's signed book -- an excellent Association copy.  Signed copies
of Rudolf Eucken's works are exceedingly difficult to find and our search
of the auction records reveals only one of his signed books having come to
auction since 1960. A Very Good copy of Rudolf Eucken's masterpiece, SIGNED
BY RUDOLF EUCKEN and with an excellent PROVENANCE, BEING THE COPY OF NOBEL
PRIZE-WINNER MURRAY GELL-MANN. A REMARKABLE AND RARE COPY OF THIS NOTABLE
WORK. Very Good. Hardcover. (#00003971) *$225.00*