Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674792760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries like Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of Schopenhauer's profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason."
Author: Rdiger Safranski
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781973731269
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy By Rudiger Safranski
Author: David E. Cartwright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521825989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 601
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This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship to Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame.
Author: R. Raj Singh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441128255
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Arthur Schopenhauer is a widely read, admired and intriguing philosopher whose ideas have had a profound impact on some of the greatest minds of the last two centuries. He is known for his powerful but simple prose-style and a philosophy that tackles everyday life. Yet even the most sympathetic and intelligent reader of his works is likely to be perplexed by seeming inconsistencies and unconventional tone of a number of his major claims. Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Schopenhauer's philosophy, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to the important and complex thought of this key philosopher. The book explores arguments that he offers for his pessimistic worldview that have long been misunderstood. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Schopenhauer contributions to philosophy, this book also presents an in-depth analysis of his western as well as his hitherto neglected eastern sources and influences.
Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470695900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Focuses on the concept of the sublime as it clarifies Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, moral theory and asceticism Explores the substantial relationships between Schopenhauer’s philosophy and Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity Defends Schopenhauer’s position that absolute truth can be known and described as a blindly striving, all-permeating, universal “Will” Examines the influence of Asian philosophy on Schopenhauer Describes the relationships between Schopenhauer’s thought and that of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.
Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393050080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rüdiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished life of Nietzsche while simultaneously assessing the philosophical implications of his morality, religion, and art. Struggling to break away from the oppressive burdens of the past, Nietzsche invented a unique philosophy based on compulsive self-consciousness and constant self-revision. As groundbreaking as it will be long-lasting, this biography offers a brilliant, multifaceted portrait of a towering figure.
Author: Rüdiger Safranski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393323801
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Assessing Nietzche's morality, religion, and art, this seminal biography is essential reading for anyone studying the philosophy of history's most enigmatic and fascinating thinker.
Author: Hein van Dongen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144385865X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Scientists rarely take ‘paranormal experiences’ seriously. Furthermore, in the recent past the concept of the ‘paranormal’ did not even exist in philosophy. William James, who extensively studied mediumistic phenomena, labelled them ‘wild beasts of the philosophical desert’. This book demonstrates that to important philosophers – from Kant to Derrida – controversial phenomena like telepathy and clairvoyance were serious topics. The authors of this collection have studied relevant texts that have hitherto received little attention, and illustrate how each of the philosophers in question thoughtfully interpreted exceptional experiences that seem to go beyond our understanding.
Author: Simon Critchley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631190139
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486132781
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 575
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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.
