Translator's Note Preface Book One The Warehouse Island Life and Le Havre The Mountains and the Counting-House A Father's Ghost Weimar The Outsider Between Plato and Kant Fichte and the Ego The 'Better Consciousness' Philosophy at Arms Book Two The Thinker Without a Stage Return to Weimar Goethe The Will as the 'Thing in Itself' The World as Will and Representation The Great No First Italian Journey The Unattended Lecturer Disappointment in Berlin Flight from Berlin On the Will in Nature The Mystery of Freedom The Mountain Comes to the Prophet The Comedy of Fame Chronology Editions of Schopenhauer's Works, Sources, Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
This biography succeeds admirably in placing Schopenhauer and his work in the varied milieux appropriate to them. The intellectual scene in Europe changed greatly during Schopenhauer's working lifetime, and Safranski is excellent at conveying the atmosphere of the different places and periods...The considerable learning which enables Safranski to put all this together is quite unobtrusive. The style throughout is brisk and keeps the reader's attention...It is a book the literate public will read with enjoyment. -- J. B. Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University
Rüdiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was co-publisher of the magazine Berliner Hefte. He is also the author of a widely acclaimed biography of E. T. A. Hoffman. Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
An impeccably documented and evenhanded biography of the brilliant,
bad-tempered philosopher… Mr. Safranski’s book is delightful…with
lively social histories of Danzig, Hamburg, Weimar, Dresden and
Frankfurt; and lengthy, relevant excursions into the philosophies
of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and the Romantics, among others.
*Washington Times*
[This book] will be the Schopenhauer biography of our time.
*Die Ziet*
This biography by Rüdiger Safranski is marvelously full of detail
and texture. He is completely at home in that fragmented world of
German literary sub-culture.
*Spectator*
Safranski’s intelligent, informative, and comprehensive biography
is the most complete and detailed account of the pained and
paradoxical life of Arthur Schopenhauer. This [is a] sensitive,
incisive, and in-depth study… Safranski’s polished work is a
biographer’s biography, highly recommended to anyone interested in
a stark and edifying vision of human existence and the man whose
passionate and paradoxical life contradicted the oriental serenity
he prescribed.
*Choice*
Safranski’s comprehensive biography of this complex and fascinating
man unfolds within a richly detailed portrayal of German literary
and intellectual life in the nineteenth century. This lively blend
of biography and historical narrative makes it an excellent choice
for interested general readers as well as serious students of
philosophy. This book is sure to become a standard work on
Schopenhauer.
*Library Journal*
This biography succeeds admirably in placing Schopenhauer and his
work in the varied milieux appropriate to them. The intellectual
scene in Europe changed greatly during Schopenhauer’s working
lifetime, and Safranski is excellent at conveying the atmosphere of
the different places and periods… The considerable learning which
enables Safranski to put all this together is quite unobtrusive.
The style throughout is brisk and keeps the reader’s attention… It
is a book the literate public will read with enjoyment.
*J. B. Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University*
An impeccably documented and evenhanded biography of the brilliant,
bad-tempered philosopher... Mr. Safranski's book is
delightful...with lively social histories of Danzig, Hamburg,
Weimar, Dresden and Frankfurt; and lengthy, relevant excursions
into the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and the Romantics,
among others. -- Diane Weber * Washington Times *
[This book] will be the Schopenhauer biography of our time. * Die
Ziet *
This biography by Rudiger Safranski is marvelously full of detail
and texture. He is completely at home in that fragmented world of
German literary sub-culture. -- Noel Malcolm * Spectator *
Safranski's intelligent, informative, and comprehensive biography
is the most complete and detailed account of the pained and
paradoxical life of Arthur Schopenhauer. This [is a] sensitive,
incisive, and in-depth study... Safranski's polished work is a
biographer's biography, highly recommended to anyone interested in
a stark and edifying vision of human existence and the man whose
passionate and paradoxical life contradicted the oriental serenity
he prescribed. * Choice *
Safranski's comprehensive biography of this complex and fascinating
man unfolds within a richly detailed portrayal of German literary
and intellectual life in the nineteenth century. This lively blend
of biography and historical narrative makes it an excellent choice
for interested general readers as well as serious students of
philosophy. This book is sure to become a standard work on
Schopenhauer. -- Raymond Frey * Library Journal *
This biography succeeds admirably in placing Schopenhauer and his
work in the varied milieux appropriate to them. The intellectual
scene in Europe changed greatly during Schopenhauer's working
lifetime, and Safranski is excellent at conveying the atmosphere of
the different places and periods... The considerable learning which
enables Safranski to put all this together is quite unobtrusive.
The style throughout is brisk and keeps the reader's attention...
It is a book the literate public will read with enjoyment. -- J. B.
Schneewind, Johns Hopkins University
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