Soliloquies

Friedrich Schleiermacher — Soliloquies, translated with an introduction and notes by Horace Leland Friess (Chicago: Open Court, 1926).

Schleiermacher’s Monologen of 1800, five reflective addresses to himself (Reflection, Soundings, The World, Prospect, Youth and Age) on the freedom and individuality of the moral life, with the translator’s preface and introduction, Schleiermacher’s prefaces to the second and third editions, his later revisions of the text, and an appendix on the development of his philosophical system and his conception of a philosopher-priest, with a bibliography. US public domain only (1926).

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Contents (14)

1. Translator’s Preface
2. Translator’s Introduction
3. Preface to the Second Edition
4. Preface to the Third Edition
5. Offering
6. Reflection
7. Soundings
8. The World
9. Prospect
10. Youth and Age
11. Notes: Schleiermacher’s Revisions of the Soliloquies
12. Appendix I: The Development of Schleiermacher’s Philosophical System
13. Appendix II: Schleiermacher’s Conception of a Philosopher Priest
14. Selected Bibliography