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n o t e s a n d a b b r e v i a t i o n s For ease of reference, I provide the reader with citations to standard editions of English, French, and German works (noted below), although my own translations occasionally diverge from those in the English editions cited. Karl Barth (1886–1968) R The Epistle to the Romans. Translated from the sixth edition of Edwyn C. Hoskins. London: Oxford University Press, 1953. Röm Der Römerbrief. Reprinted from the new edition of 1922. Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 1984. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) GP ‘‘Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.’’ In SE, 18:65–143. GW Sigmund Freud Gesammelte Werke: Chronologisch Geordnet. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1966. LN ‘‘The Libido Theory and Narcissism.’’ In SE, 16:412–30. M ‘‘Mourning and Melancholia.’’ In SE, 14:243–58. N ‘‘On Narcissism: An Introduction.’’ In SE, 14:73–102. O ‘‘Types of Onset of Neurosis.’’ In SE, 12:231–38. SE The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Translated and edited by James Strachey. London: Hogarth, 1981. U ‘‘Assessment of the Unconscious.’’ In SE, 14:196–204. xiii xiv Notes and Abbreviations Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) Lev Leviathan. Edited by Richard Tuck. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Revised student edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) A Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View. Edited by Robert B. Louden. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. AA Kant’s gesammelte Schriften. Edited by Königlich Preussische Akademie . 29 volumes. Berlin: Georg Reimer Verlag, 1910–. (Volumes IX, XIIIff have imprint: Berlin: Walter de Gruyter) CJ Critique of the Power of Judgment. Edited and translated by Paul Guyer and Eric Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Cor Correspondence. Translated and edited by Arnulf Zweig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. CPR Critique of Pure Reason. Translated and edited by Paul Guyer and Allen Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. CPrR Critique of Practical Reason. In PrP, 133–271. G Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. In PrP, 43–108. LM Lectures on Metaphysics. Translated and edited by Karl Ameriks and Steve Naragon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. O ‘‘What Does It Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?’’ In RRT, 7–18. OP Opus Postumum. Edited by Eckart Förster. Translated by Eckart Förster and Michael Rosen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. PrP Practical Philosophy. Translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996. QeE ‘‘An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?’’ In PrP, 17–22. Rel Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. In RRT, 57–215. [3.144.26.83] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 02:22 GMT) Notes and Abbreviations xv RRT Religion and Rational Theology. Translated and edited by Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) CSV ‘‘The Creed of the Savoyard Vicar.’’ In E, 228–58. E Emile or On Education. Translated by Barbara Foxley. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1972. Ém Émile, ou de l’education. 4 volumes. Francfort [i.e., London]: Strahan , 1762. Max Weber (1864–1920) Sci ‘‘Science as a Vocation.’’ In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1958, 129–56. WB ‘‘Wissenschaft als Beruf.’’ In Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre . Edited by Johannes Winckelmann. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1951. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) NB Notebooks, 1914–1916. Second edition. Edited by G. H. von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe. [German/English edition; English translations by G. E. M. Anscombe.] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. TLP Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. [German/English edition; English translations by C. K. Ogden.] London: Routledge, 1990. [3.144.26.83] Project MUSE (2024-04-19 02:22 GMT) A Wa l k B l o s s o m i n g The spirit opens as life closes down. Tries to frame the size of whatever God is. Finds that dying makes us visible. Realizes we must get to the loin of that before time is over. The part of which we are the wall around. Not the good or evil, neither death nor afterlife but the importance of what we contain meanwhile. (He walks along remembering, biting into beauty, the heart eating...

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