Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Rüdiger Safranski
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1788-1860
- Setting: Central Europe, primarily Germany
- Principal Characters: Arthur Schopenhauer, Johanna Schopenhauer, Heinrich Schopenhauer, Adele Schopenhauer, G. W. F. Hegel, I. W. Von Goethe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Depression, mental, Ethics, Aesthetics
- Locales: Europe, Germany
Arthur Schopenhauer, the philosopher of pessimism, published the first edition of his magnum opus, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, in 1818, though it was not until the 1850’s that he achieved widespread recognition. Several generations of readers have known that work in English translation as The World as Will and Idea (1883-1886). In 1958, however, E. E. I. Payne published a superior modern translation under the title The World as Will and Representation; Payne has also translated Parerga und Paralipomena (1851; Parerga and Paralipomena, 1974), the...
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