Schopenhauer by Christopher Janaway
A Very Short Introduction
A concise study of a major nineteenth-century pessimist’s philosophy, explaining how the world is understood as representation grounded in an underlying, striving will, the roots of pervasive suffering, the ethical centrality of compassion, and the promise of relief through aesthetic contemplation and ascetic denial. It situates the system in relation to Kant and Indian thought, clarifies arguments in metaphysics, psychology, ethics, and aesthetics, and considers key objections. The book also traces the thinker’s influence on later philosophy, literature, and music, while assessing what remains compelling today.
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- 2002
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