I would like to add information about two books by Peter Wessel Zapffe recently published in Russian. I request to add them to the goodreads.com website. The books are:
Book 1: "The Last Messiah. I Choose Truth" (Russian Translation) Title: Последний мессия. Я выбираю истину Original Title: Den sidste Messias; Jeg velger sannheten: en dialog mellom Peter Wessel Zapffe og Herman Tønnessen (compilation of two works by Peter Wessel Zapffe) Author: Peter Wessel Zapffe ISBN (or ASIN): no Translator: Vladislav K. Pedder Publisher: Totenburg (Russia) Publication Date: June 1, 2025 Page count: 156 Format: Hardcover Description: This is the first Russian edition of two key texts by Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe: the essay The Last Messiah and the previously unpublished philosophical dialogue I Choose Truth, co-authored with Herman Tønnessen. Both works examine the fundamental contradiction of human existence, exposing the rift between biological nature and the capacity for self-reflection. Zapffe offers no solutions but rather compels readers to confront the profound existential dilemmas of human being and self-awareness. This edition is the first authorized translation published in Russia. Russian Additional Info: Official publisher’s page: https://totenburg.org/product/posledn...
Book 2: "On the Tragic. Volume 1" (Russian Translation)
Title: О трагическом. Том 1 Original Title: Om det tragiske Author: Peter Wessel Zapffe ISBN (or ASIN): no Translator: Vladislav K. Pedder Publisher: Totenburg (Russia) Publication Date: June 1, 2025 Page count: 358 Format: Hardcover Description: The first volume of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s seminal work On the Tragic explores the nature of the tragic as the ontological foundation of human existence. Moving beyond aesthetic and literary categories, the author examines the tragic as a fundamental property of being, arising from the contradiction between human aspirations and the indifference of nature. Building upon the concepts outlined in his essay The Last Messiah and drawing on biological, psychological, and philosophical research, Zapffe demonstrates how the development of consciousness and self-awareness inevitably leads to the recognition of existence’s tragic nature, exposing human vulnerability in the face of existential catastrophes. Zapffe’s central philosophical work appears in Russian. Language: Russian Additional Info: Official publisher’s page: https://totenburg.org/product/o-tragi...
Book 1: "The Last Messiah. I Choose Truth" (Russian Translation)
Title: Последний мессия. Я выбираю истину
Original Title: Den sidste Messias; Jeg velger sannheten: en dialog mellom Peter Wessel Zapffe og Herman Tønnessen (compilation of two works by Peter Wessel Zapffe)
Author: Peter Wessel Zapffe
ISBN (or ASIN): no
Translator: Vladislav K. Pedder
Publisher: Totenburg (Russia)
Publication Date: June 1, 2025
Page count: 156
Format: Hardcover
Description: This is the first Russian edition of two key texts by Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe: the essay The Last Messiah and the previously unpublished philosophical dialogue I Choose Truth, co-authored with Herman Tønnessen. Both works examine the fundamental contradiction of human existence, exposing the rift between biological nature and the capacity for self-reflection. Zapffe offers no solutions but rather compels readers to confront the profound existential dilemmas of human being and self-awareness. This edition is the first authorized translation published in Russia.
Russian
Additional Info: Official publisher’s page: https://totenburg.org/product/posledn...
Book 2: "On the Tragic. Volume 1" (Russian Translation)
Title: О трагическом. Том 1
Original Title: Om det tragiske
Author: Peter Wessel Zapffe
ISBN (or ASIN): no
Translator: Vladislav K. Pedder
Publisher: Totenburg (Russia)
Publication Date: June 1, 2025
Page count: 358
Format: Hardcover
Description: The first volume of Peter Wessel Zapffe’s seminal work On the Tragic explores the nature of the tragic as the ontological foundation of human existence. Moving beyond aesthetic and literary categories, the author examines the tragic as a fundamental property of being, arising from the contradiction between human aspirations and the indifference of nature. Building upon the concepts outlined in his essay The Last Messiah and drawing on biological, psychological, and philosophical research, Zapffe demonstrates how the development of consciousness and self-awareness inevitably leads to the recognition of existence’s tragic nature, exposing human vulnerability in the face of existential catastrophes. Zapffe’s central philosophical work appears in Russian.
Language: Russian
Additional Info: Official publisher’s page: https://totenburg.org/product/o-tragi...