Appendices and Omissions

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Preface to the Second Edition.

In his will, established before a notary and witnesses in Frankfurt am Main on June 26, 1852, Arthur Schopenhauer bequeathed to me his scholarly manuscripts, all copies of his works interleaved with paper interleaved: a bookbinding practice where blank pages are inserted between printed ones to allow for handwritten notes, all works and writings by Kant from his library, Kant’s bust, his emerald breastpin, and finally, the publishing rights to all future editions of all his writings, as all of his publishers have formally renounced these rights in their contracts.

Through these manuscripts and the interleaved copies, I have been placed in a position to publish further editions of Schopenhauer’s works with the improvements and additions that he himself intended for them. Schopenhauer was accustomed, as soon as one of his works or a new edition of such appeared, to immediately have a copy of it interleaved with paper and to gradually enter onto those blank leaves the additions and improvements which he would then use whenever a new edition became necessary. Thus, I possess such interleaved copies not only of all his works,