Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy | Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

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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...

Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy | Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

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