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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For first time translates and locates all quotes, provides full index.
Part of the Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy," this
first volume of Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Presentation
"is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this
important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful for
readers. A General Introduction includes the work's historical
context, a discussion of historical influences, and biographical
information on Arthur Schopenhauer. Annotations and notes from the
editor clarify difficult passages for greater understanding, and a
bibliography gives the reader additional resources for further
study.
Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For first time translates and locates all quotes, provides full index.
"The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of
Freud" "The World as Will and Idea" (1819) holds that all nature,
including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life;
that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and
the only lasting good through ascetic renunciation. Unique in
western philosophy for his affinity with Eastern thought,
Schopenhauer influenced philosophers, writers, and composers
including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Wagner, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann,
and Samuel Beckett. The Work presented here appeals not only to the
student of philosophy, but everyone interested in psychology,
literature and eastern and western religion. "The most
comprehensive paperback edition available, with introduction,
bibliography, selected criticism, index and chronology of
Schopenhauer's life and times "
What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any
purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big
issues. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers -
Nietzsche foremost among them - but across the most brilliant
novelists, musicians, and artists of all disciplines. Schopenhauer
believed that the world was a cold, absurd place, and that it was
only by the force of an individual's Will that any meaning could be
created. He also believed that the universe itself had a Will-a
spiritual force many have likened to The Way, spoken of by Taoists.
This, the first English collection of Schopenhauer's work, is a
much-needed book. Schopenhauer wrote thousands of pages. Volume 1
of his most famous work, "The World as Will and Representation",
alone runs over 750 pages. As a result, it has been daunting to
know where to begin to read Schopenhauer, despite his immense
reputation. Now, just as Basic Writings did for Heidegger and
Nietzsche, our new collection will open English readers to
Schopenhauer's profound ideas - almost as if for the first time.
Schopenhauer's analyses of causation and related concepts . . .
rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more
celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly
oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes,
Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed
hopelessly dark. --Richard Taylor, University of Rochester
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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A profound advocate for willpower and rational deliberation, Arthur
Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that complete happiness and
satisfaction are unobtainable. This essay from his final work, "
Parerga und Paralipomena" (1851), examines how to discover the
highest possible degree of pleasure and success, and suggests
guidelines for experiencing life to its fullest. Lucid and
compelling, Schopenhauer's work offers a powerfully original point
of view on a subject of perennial interest.
Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering
of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later
writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These
texts, produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer's long
life, reveal a unique kind of philosophy, expressed in a singular
style. Eschewing the tradition of dry, totalizing, academic
philosophy prevalent during the time, Schopenhauer's later writings
mark a shift towards a philosophy of aphorisms, fragments,
anecdotes and observations, written in a literary style that is by
turns antagonistic, resigned, confessional, and filled with all the
fragile contours of an intellectual memoir. Here Schopenhauer
allows himself to pose challenging questions regarding the fate of
the human species, the role of suffering in the world, and the rift
between self and world that increasingly has come to define human
existence, to this day. It is these writings of Schopenhauer that
later generations of artists, poets, musicians, and philosophers
would identify as exemplifying the pessimism of their era, and
perhaps of our own as well. On the Suffering of the World is
presented with an introduction that places Schopenhauer's thought
in its intellectual context, while also connecting it to
contemporary concerns over climate change, the anthropocene, and
the spectre of human extinction. The book also includes a
bibliography and chronology of Schopenhauer's life.
Part of the "Pearson Primary Sources in Philosophy," this second
volume of Schopenhauer's "World as Will and Presentation "is framed
by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of
philosophy more accessible and meaningful for undergraduates. Each
book in the Pearson Library offers today's students a clear,
up-to-date, and "inexpensive" translation of a seminal work in
philosophy. With in-depth, user-friendly introductions, copious
notes to clarify difficult or important passages, and a rich index,
each volume makes the masterworks of philosophy accessible to
students and emphasizes their relevance to contemporary issues and
debates. Again, each work in the Pearson Library is priced so that
a number of works can be assigned in the same course, and/or
bundled with a text or anthology.
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On the Basis of Morality (Hardcover)
Arthur Schopenhauer; Translated by E. F. J. Payn; Introduction by David E. Cartwright
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This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's
treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne's definitive
translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950).
This edition includes an Introduction by David Cartwright, a
translator's preface, biographical note, selected bibliography, and
an index. For convenient reference to passages in Kant's work
discussed by Schopenhauer, Academy edition numbers have been added.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century,
Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined
not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for
physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion,
ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is
taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena,
which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked
in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely
free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and
self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and
pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon
philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche,
Wittgenstein and Wagner among others. Arthur Schopenhauer was born
in Danzig in 1788 where his family, of Dutch origin, owned a
respected trading house. Arthur was expected to inherit the
business, but hated the work and in 1807, after his father's
suicide and the sale of the business, he enrolled in the grammar
school at Gotha. He went on to study medicine and science at
Gottingen University and in 1810 began to study philosophy. In 1811
he transferred to Berlin to write his doctoral thesis, and began to
write The World as Will and Idea, a complete exploration of his
philosophy, which was finished in 1818. Although the book failed to
sell, his belief in his own views sustained him through twenty-five
years of frustrated desire for fame. During his middle life he
travelled widely in Europe and in 1844 brought out a much expanded
edition of his book, which after his death became one of the most
widely read of all philosophical works. His fame was established in
1851 with the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena, a collection
of dialogues, essays and aphorisms. He died in 1860. R.J.
Hollingdale has translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer,
Goethe, T.A. Hoffmann, Lichtenburg and Theodor Fontane, as well as
eleven of Nietzsche's books, many for the Penguin Classics. He has
published two books on Nietzsche and was Honorary President of the
British Nietzsche Society until his death in 2003.
Interest in Schopenhauer has increased noticeably in recent years.
Published here is one of his key works, which has been out of print
for a long time, in the form of Payne's definitive translation.
This work is one of the most significant nineteenth century
treatises on ethics. It is also Schopenhauer's most extended
discussion of traditional themes in ethics and presents a
descriptive ethics radically at odds with rationally based,
prescriptive ethical theories. Schopenhauer begins this book with a
wide-ranging critique of Kant's ethics, one that anticipates the
work of contemporary critics of modern moral philosophy like that
of G E M Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Richard Taylor. Schopenhauer
argues that compassion is the basis of morality, and in so doing
presents a virtue ethics in which passion and desire are viewed as
the keys for explaining different moral characters, behaviours, and
world views. In the concluding part of his essay, Schopenhauer
sketches his metaphysics of morals, using Kant's transcendental
idealism as a ground for stressing both the interconnectiveness of
being and the affinity of his ethics to Eastern thought.
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this
selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the
nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges
from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have
transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have
inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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