Aus den Fabeln Johann Heinrich Petalozzis

Title

en_US Aus den Fabeln Johann Heinrich Petalozzis

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

Johann Heinrich Petalozzi

Creator

en_US Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich See all items with this value

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:19Z

2024-04

en_US 1936

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 1936

Abstract

en_US I catalogued this book carefully and then found that we had apparently acquired a copy fifteen years earlier. Now I have compared and found two surprises. It is internally the same book, though the publisher has changed from Zollikopfer & Co. to Schweizer Bücherfreunde, both in St. Gallen. Secondly, this copy has not the dust-jacket and embossed cloth cover of the Zollikopfer copy, but rather a leather binding and boards with a crisscross pattern. I will keep the remarks I put together on this copy; they may be somewhat different from my earlier remarks. This is an attractive leather-spined volume of 192 pages. It is our eighth book of Pestalozzi's fables. Like others, it has the interior title "Figuren zu meinem ABC-Buch oder zu den Anfangsgründen meines Denkens." That page is followed by "Die Veranlassung dieses Buchs." I believe Pestalozzi here is making a claim for reflectivity: "How do I perceive an object differently from the way any other animal on earth perceives it?" I tried several new fables after reviewing those commented on in the other seven volumes. "Sonne und Mond" seems to me to say that, the smaller you are, the more you focus on the weaknesses of others. A farmer father answers his child, who complains about clouds obscuring the blue sky: "What do you have from a blue sky, while clouds are for us a blessing from heaven." Monkey spouses notice the peacefulness of an ox grazing beneath them. He asks her why they, a more dignified species, go flying around in trees. Her answer: "We apes are more dignified, but we are more apes than we are dignified." Pestalozzi remains for me more a thought-challenger than a storyteller.

Identifier

en_US 13565 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/157927

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Schweizer Bücherfreunde

en_US St. Gallen

Subject

Johann Heinrich Petalozzi See all items with this value