books about: schopenhauer

books about: schopenhauer

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Schopenhauer

The World As Will and Representation, In Two Volumes: Vol. I

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dover Publications, 1966

Philosophy for independent thinkers
Schopenhauer's magnum opus towers high above the silly word games of the analysts. This book is philosophy at its very best- a book that no educated person should miss for Schopenhauer wrote primarily for the layman. Like Nietzsche, he was highly skeptical of the ...

Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas

Deborah Luepnitz, Deborah Anna Luepnitz

Basic Books, 2003

Insightful, compassionate and accessible
With great grace and empathy, Luepnitz traces five divergent routes through the sometimes difficult process of analysis. Luepnitz' considerable training and erudition illuminate not just psychoanalytic history and theory, but the relationships of patients and their ...

World as Will & Idea (Everyman's Library (Paper))

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everyman Paperbacks, 1995

the futility of willing
For someone with no formal instruction in philosophy this is a very good book to begin with. Schopenhauer avoids the use of pretensious "philosophical" jargon and writes in a predominantly literary fashion. The main value in this book is its ideas. Its basic premis ...

On the Basis of Morality

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hackett Pub Co Inc, 1998

An Absolutely Beautiful Book
The nineteenth century produced many different systems of ethics. While Kant, Nietzsche, Mill, and Hegel all contributed greatly to ethical thought, the greatest contribution, in my opinion, came from Arthur Schopenhauer. On the Basis of Morality is not only a ...

Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Unfashionable Observations
Nietzsche wrote "David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer" in 1873, the first of his Unfashionable Observations, at the behest of Richard Wagner. David Strauss was an eminent theologian, whose The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (1864) had had a tremendous impact ...

The Philosophy of Schopenhauer

Bryan Magee

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

If you only study one philospher...
Perhaps the most unjustly neglected philosopher in the western world. I would hope this very readable introduction will encourage more people to take up the study of this great thinker. Bryan Magee, as usual does, what many professional philosphers are unable or ...

The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel (P.S.)

Irvin Yalom

Harper Perennial, 2006

Very thought provoking
"The Schopenhauer Cure," is a lively work of fiction centering around eight people in a group therapy setting. It's about a psychologist who, upon learning that he has terminal cancer, contacts a former patient to try and validate the work in his life. The former ...

Arthur Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Presentation, Volume I (Longman Library of Primary Sources)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Longman, 2007

An excellent translation for those new to his work
A brief history of my previous experiences with Schopenhauer: I first read Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (the Payne, definitive, translation) many years ago. I've also read a number of Schopenhauer's other works (mostly done by Payne) and have ...

Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Penguin Classics, 1973

with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ...
Schopenhauer's father committed suicide. Son Arthur had been very devoted to his father Heinrich Floris. The high-sensitive son could not deal with the fact, that his mother Johanna had preferred to talk with Goethe in her Weimar Literary Salon instead of helping her ...

German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

Roger Scruton, Peter Singer, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

The best of the hardest
These are highly admirable overviews by some of the best of the current set of the philsophers examining past greats. This must have been a difficult book to put together. The editors would have to have found not one, but four great authors from which to put together ...

On Human Nature
Arthur Schopenhauer

Cosimo Classics, 2007

German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Christopher Janaway

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

A superb concise introduction to Schopenhauer's thought.
Concise yet engaging, this book is an excellent introduction to Schopenhauer's life and thought. The author's remarks on the difficulties and limitations of Schopenhauer's metaphysics are highly illuminating. His notes highlighting the important and influential aspects ...

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Arthur Schopenhauer

Cosimo Classics, 2007

Minor Problem
This amazing treatise on human knowledge has one little fault. The editors at Open Court left out eleven words in the Tranlator's Introduction. This omission should gratify present-day philosophers in that it turns Schopenhauer's words into modern-sounding nonsense. I ...

Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Philosophical Classics) (Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences Winner)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dover Publications, 2005

A powerful examination of free will and determinism
For those who are convinced that determinism has been refuted (ie. Popper, Sartre, Kierkegarrd) it is quite obvious that they haven't read this essay because if they had they might put their own presuppositions about the validity of free will into question. ...