Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer's essays remain among the most forceful, lucid, and unsparing works of nineteenth-century philosophy. Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer gathers forty-two shorter works drawn from seven classic essay collections: Counsels and Maxims, On Human Nature, On Religion, Studies in Pessimism, The Art of Controversy, The Art of Literature, and The Wisdom of Life. Together they present Schopenhauer as philosopher, moralist, literary critic, psychologist, and fierce observer of human vanity, ambition, suffering, belief, argument, art, and self-deception.
In these essays, Schopenhauer writes with unusual directness on conduct, character, reputation, religion, education, authorship, reading, rhetoric, happiness, pessimism, and the limits of human reason. His thought is severe but bracing: sceptical of easy consolation, suspicious of intellectual fashion, and relentlessly attentive to the motives beneath civilised behaviour. This substantial collection offers one of the most accessible entrances into Schopenhauer's philosophy, bringing together the aphoristic brilliance and dark clarity that made him a lasting influence on modern philosophy, literature, psychology, and existential thought.

Über den Autor

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher whose work became one of the most distinctive and influential bodies of nineteenth-century philosophy. Best known for The World as Will and Representation, Schopenhauer developed a philosophical system centred on the will, desire, suffering, perception, art, ethics, and the limits of rational optimism. Although often associated with philosophical pessimism, his work ranges widely across metaphysics, aesthetics, moral philosophy, psychology, religion, literature, and practical wisdom.Schopenhauer's style helped distinguish him from many academic philosophers of his age. He wrote with clarity, severity, wit, and literary force, making his essays especially accessible to readers interested in philosophy beyond formal systems. His influence extended well beyond philosophy into modern literature, psychology, music, and existential thought, shaping writers and thinkers concerned with desire, suffering, individuality, illusion, compassion, and the human condition. His essays remain among the most readable and provocative works in the modern philosophical tradition.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Erziehung & Bildung , Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781604595741
ISBN-10:	1604595744
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Schopenhauer, Arthur
Hersteller:	SMK Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Arthur Schopenhauer
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2009
Gewicht:	0,748 kg