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In the Presence of Schopenhauer (Paperback)
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In the Presence of Schopenhauer (Paperback)
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Loot Price R230
Discovery Miles 2 300
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The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and
controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of
Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's
Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by
it and he hunted down a copy of his major philosophical work, The
World as Will and Representation. Houellebecq found in Schopenhauer
- the radical pessimist, the chronicler of human suffering, the
lonely misanthrope - a powerful conception of the human condition
and of the future that awaits us, and when Houellebecq's first
writings appeared in the early 1990s, the influence of Schopenhauer
was everywhere apparent. But it was only much later, in 2005, that
Houellebecq began to translate and write a commentary on
Schopenhauer's work. He thought of turning it into a book but soon
abandoned the idea and the text remained unpublished until 2017.
Now available in English for the first time, In the Presence of
Schopenhauer is the story of a remarkable encounter between a
novelist and a philosopher and a testimony to the deep and enduring
impact of Schopenhauer's philosophy on one of France's greatest
living writers.
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