Photo (detail) of the exhibition: Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) – La bibliothèque d’un philosophe, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, 2013. Photo: Louis-Étienne Doré.
Bibliography
Books and series
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Carolus Bovillus [Charles de Bovelles]. Liber de sapiente. Edited by Raymond Klibansky. In Ernst Cassirer, Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance, 299–458. Studien der Bibliothek Warburg 10. Leipzig and Berlin: Teubner, 1927.
Related reviews and articles (JSTOR)
Ein Proklos-Fund und seine Bedeutung. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1928–29, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 5. Abhandlung. Heidelberg: Winter, 1929
Review by A. Mansion in Revue néoscolastique de philosophie (JSTOR)
“… in recent decades, Proclus scholarship has made notable progress through the rediscovery of several texts that had been considered lost. R. Klibansky discovered in the medieval Latin translation of William of Moerbeke a substantial section of Proclus’s commentary on Plato”s Parmenides that is missing in the original Greek…”
Kristeller, Paul Oskar. The Journal of Philosophy 59, no. 3 (1962): 74–78.
Nicolai de Cusa [Nicholas of Cusa]. Opera omnia (issu et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis edita). Leipzig & Hamburg: Meiner, 1932–83:
For a history of the edition see Watanabe (1991)
Reviews (JSTOR)
1932. Vol. I, De docta ignorantia. Edited by Raymond Klibansky with Ernst Hoffmann (Leipzig).
1932. Vol. II, Apologia doctae ignorantiae. Edited by Raymond Klibansky (Leipzig).
1959. Vol. VII, De pace fidei. Edited by Raymond Klibansky with Hildebrand Bascour O.S.B. (Leipzig). Second edition, 1970. First published in London by the Warburg Institute, 1956. Reprint of Warburg edition: Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus International, 1977.
1982. Vol. XII, De venatione sapientiae. De apice theoriae. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and G.H. Senger (Hamburg).
1983. Vol. V, Idiota de sapientia. Idiota de mente. Edited by R. Steiger. With two appendices by Raymond Klibansky: I: De memoria librorum Idiotae. II: De dialogis De vera sapientia Francisco Petrarcae addictis (Hamburg).
The beginning of De Visione Dei, from Klibansky’s marked 16th century copy of Cusa’s works: Haec Accvrata Recognitio Trivm Voluminvm, Opervm Clariss. P. Nicolai Cvsae Card.…Paris, 1514 (folio BX890 N485 1514, Raymond Klibansky Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University).
Magistri Eckardi [Meister Eckhart]. Opera Latina (auspiciis Instituti S. Sabinae in Urbe ad codicum fidem edita). Leipzig: Meiner, 1934 – 36.
Contemporary reviews (JSTOR)
1934. Fasc. I: Super oratione dominica. Editit Raymundus Klibansky.
1936. Fasc. XIII: Quaestiones Parisienses. Edidit Antonius Dondaine op; Commentariolum de Eckardi Magisterio, adiunxit Raymundus Klibansky.
“Klibansky’s primary quest in these great texts was for the pillars of a doctrine of freedom that could be pitted against the irrationalism of the interwar period. He soon became convinced of the need for an edition of Eckhart’s Latin works, over and above the German sermons that had become popular, and often manipulated by the prevailing nationalist ideology. He garnered the support of the Heidelberg Academy and embarked on a collaboration with the Dominicans in Rome, who also wanted to produce such an edition. These projects were hindered by the Nazi government, which was then attempting to co-opt Eckhart’s thought on behalf of a totalitarian Germanic mysticism expressed in the post-Nietzschean ideal of the divine superman. The work was interrupted and Klibansky narrowly escaped the political police, soon going into exile like so many other Jewish scholars.”
From the introduction by Georges Leroux to: A Life in Philosophy: Conversations with Georges Leroux, English trans. by Peter Feldstein. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, FORTHCOMING. Original title: Le Philosophe et la mémoire du siècle (1998).
Philosophy and History: Essays Presented to Ernst Cassirer. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and H.J. Paton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936. Reprinted New York: Harper & Row, 1963; Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1975.
Reviews (JSTOR)
The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition During the Middle Ages: Outlines of a Corpus Platonicum medii aevi. London: Warburg Institute, 1939. Reprinted London: Warburg Institute, 1950. Reissued …with a New Preface and Four Supplementary Chapters, Together with Plato’s Parmenides in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Munich: Kraus International, 1981; reprinted Millwood, NY: Kraus International, 1982.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Corpus Platonicum Medii Ævi. Auspiciis Academiæ Britannicæ, edidit Raymundus Klibansky. London: Warburg Institute, 1940–62.
Reviews (JSTOR)
1940. Plato Latinus I: Meno, Interprete Henrico Aristippo. Ed. V. Kordeuder. Recognovit et praefatione instruxit Carlotta Labowsky.
1943. Plato Arabus II: Alfarabius de Platonis Philosophia. Ed. Franciscus Rosenthal et Richardus Walzer.
1950. Plato Latinus II: Phaedo, Interprete Henrico Aristippo. Ed. et praefatione instruxit Laurentius Minio-Paluello.
1951. Plato Arabus I: Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis. Edd. Paulus Kraus et Richardus Walzer.
1952. Plato Arabus III: Alfarabius Compendium Legum Platonis. Ed. Franciscus Gabrieli.
1953. Plato Latinus III: Platonis Parmenides nec non Procli Commentarium in Parmenidem, pars adhuc inedita. Ediderunt, praefatione adnotationibusque illustraverunt Raymundus Klibansky et Carlotta Labowsky.
1962. Plato Latinus IV: Timaeus, a Calcidio translatus commentarioque instructus. Ed. Jan Hendrick Waszink.
Reprint of Plato Latinus I–III and Plato Arabus I–III.Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus-Thomson, 1973. Second edition of Plato Latinus IV. Leiden: Brill, 1975.
Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Richard Hunt. 1941–1943–1968. 6 vols. + 3 supplements.
– Vols. 4–6, 1959–68, also co-edited by Carlotta (Lotte) Labowsky.
– Vols. 1–3, and supplements 1 and 3 reprinted Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1970–77.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Mussolini, Benito. Memoirs: 1942–1943, with Documents Relating to the Period. Translated by Frances Lobb. Edited, with commentary by R. Klibansky. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1949. Reprinted New York: Fertig, 1975.
Review by W.N.M. in The English Historical Review (JSTOR)
Croce, Benedetto. My Philosophy and Other Essays on the Moral and Political Problems of Our Time. Edited by R. Klibansky. London and New York, 1949. Reprinted Oxford, 1969; New York, 1983.
Reviews (JSTOR)
New Letters of David Hume. Edited with E.C. Mossner. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. Reprinted Oxford, 1969. Reprinted New York: Garland, 1983. Paperback ed., Oxford, 2011.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Plato. Philebus and Epinomis. Translation and introduction by A.E. Taylor. Edited by Raymond Klibansky with the co-operation of Guido Calogero and A.C. Lloyd. London: Nelson, 1956.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Philosophy in the Mid-Century / La Philosophie au milieu du vingtième siècle. Edited by Raymond Klibansky. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1958–1959. 4 vols. Reprinted Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus International, 1967–1976.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Locke, John. Lettera sulla tolleranza, testo latino e versione italiana. Latin text edited with a preface by Raymond Klibansky. Philosophy and World Community series. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1961. This is the first publication of Klibansky’s edition of the Latin text, which was subsequently printed in several bilingual editions, including:
(Reviews, all editions JSTOR)
1964. Lettre sur la tolérance. Texte latin et traduction française. Critical edition and preface by Raymond Klibansky. Translation and introduction by Raymond Polin. Montreal: Casalini. Also published at Paris: PUF, 1965; 2nd ed. Paris: PUF, 1967.
1968. Epistola de tolerantia: A Letter on Toleration. Latin text edited with a Preface by Raymond Klibansky. English translation with an introduction and notes by J.W. Gough. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Preface reprinted in French in Klibansky, Tradition antique et tolérance moderne (2016).
Plato. The Sophist and the Statesman. Translation and introduction by A.E. Taylor. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Elizabeth Anscombe. London: Nelson, 1961.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Religion, Art, and Natural Philosophy. Co-authored with Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl. London: Nelson; New York: Basic Books, 1964. Reprinted Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus International, 1979.
Reviews and mentions, various editions (JSTOR)
1983. Saturno e la melanconia. Studi di storia della filosofia naturale, religione e arte. Translated into Italian by Renzo Federici. Torino: Einaudi.
1989. Saturne et la mélancolie. Études historiques et philosophiques: Nature, religion, médecine et art. Translated into French by Fabienne Durand-Bogaert and Louis Évrard. Augmented edition with an introduction by Raymond Klibansky. Bibliothèque illustrée des histoires series. Paris: Gallimard.
1990. Saturn und Melancholie. Studien zur Geschichte der Naturphilosophie und Medizin, der Religion und der Kunst. Translated into German by Christa Buschendorf. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.
– Translated also into Spanish (1991), Japanese (1991), Romanian (2002), Polish (2009), Slovenian (2013).
2019 New English edition Including material added by Klibansky to the 1990 German edition, newly translated into English:
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Religion, Art, and Natural Philosophy. Co-authored with Erwin Panofsky and Fritz Saxl. Edited by Philippe Despoix and Georges Leroux, with a foreword by Bill Sherman. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
(In addition to the various reviews available through JSTOR, see a review of this new edition by Francis K. Peddle in Science et Esprit, available through Érudit.)
Contemporary Philosophy. Edited by Raymond Klibansky. 4 vols. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1968–71.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Philosophy and Science in the Middle Ages. Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, vol. VI. Edited by G. Floistad and R. Klibansky. 2 vols. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990.
Reviews (JSTOR)
Die Handschriften der philosophischen Werke des Apuleius. Ein Beitrag zur Überlieferungsgeschichte. Co-authored with Frank Regen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993.
Reviews (JSTOR)
La Philosophie en Europe. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and David Pears. Folio Essais 218. Paris: Gallimard, 1993.
Review by René O. Girard in Philosophiques
Klibansky with Leszek Kolakowski and Giannola Nonino as Kolakowski is awarded the Nonino Prize “to a master of our time,” 1997. Klibansky was a recipient of the prize in 1995. Private collection.
La Pensée philosophique d’expression française au Canada. Le rayonnement du Québec. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Josiane Boulad-Ayoub. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1998.
Digitally available through “BAnQ numérique”
Le Philosophe et la mémoire du siècle: Tolérance, liberté et philosophie. Entretiens avec Georges Leroux. Paris: Belles Lettres, 1998; Also published in Montreal: Boréal, 2000.
Review by Lucien Jerphagnon in Revue des Deux Mondes
Translations:
1999. El filósofo y la memoria del siglo: Tolerancia, libertad, filosofía. Conversaciones con Georges Leroux. Barcelona: Península.
2001. Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert. Gespräche mit Georges Leroux, translated from the French by Petra Willim. Frankfurt: Insel.
FORTHCOMING. Raymond Klibansky: A Life in Philosophy: Conversations with Georges Leroux, translated from the French by Peter Feldstein. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Klibansky and Georges Leroux, 2002. Photo: Nicole Giguère.
Idées sans frontières. Histoire et structures de l’Institut international de philosophie. By Raymond Klibansky with the collaboration of Ethel Groffier. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2005.
Review by Pierre Aubenque in Diogène.
Tradition antique et tolérance moderne. Texts selected and introduced by Philippe Despoix and Georges Leroux. Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016. Also in electronic format through PUM OpenEdition.
Review by Alex Godbout in Dalhousie French Studies (JSTOR)