The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings
“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings, edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association.

This indispensable collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker’s prodigious body of work. Just as the Harper Perennial Basic Writings series renders the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche accessible for English readers, The Essential Schopenhauer gives us unprecedented access to the complex ideas of this profound and influential thinker.

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The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings
“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings, edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association.

This indispensable collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker’s prodigious body of work. Just as the Harper Perennial Basic Writings series renders the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche accessible for English readers, The Essential Schopenhauer gives us unprecedented access to the complex ideas of this profound and influential thinker.

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The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher’s writings, edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association.

This indispensable collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker’s prodigious body of work. Just as the Harper Perennial Basic Writings series renders the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche accessible for English readers, The Essential Schopenhauer gives us unprecedented access to the complex ideas of this profound and influential thinker.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061768248
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 11/09/2010
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Pages: 338
Sales rank: 292,537
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Living Disaster: Schopenhauer for the Twenty-first Century vii

Schopenhauer Timeline xxiii

1 On the Suffering of the World 1

2 On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live 17

3 On the Vanity and Suffering of Life 23

4 Freedom of the Will 39

5 Principle of Sufficient Reason of Knowing 53

6 The World as Will 59

7 Knowledge of the Idea 79

8 On the Inner Nature of Art 97

9 Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics 103

10 The Artist and the Sublime 133

11 On Education 151

12 On Noise 159

13 On Women 165

14 On Suicide 179

15 On the Basis of Ethics 185

16 Eternal and Temporal Justice 197

17 Compassion 209

18 Mystics, Saints, Ascetics 233

19 Death and Rebirth 259

20 The Fullness of Nothingness 319

Suggested Further Reading 325

Sources 327

Index 331

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