The Essential Schopenhauer

Key Selections from The World As Will and Re presentation and Other Writings

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

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"We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully." -Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of Philosophy

"Schopenhauer's philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life's meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts." -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher's writings. Edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher, president of the International Schopenhauer Association, this indispensible collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker's prodigious body of work. Just as the Harper Perennial Basic Writings series renders the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche accessible for English readers, The Essential Schopenhauer gives us unprecedented access to the complex ideas of this profound and influential thinker.

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"Schopenhauer's beautiful, exceptionally dark philosophy liberates us from the intolerable burden placed upon us by our contemporary optimism. The Essential Schopenhauer is a book to turn to when all others have failed." -- Alain de Botton, bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy and How Proust Can Change Your Life

"Unquestionably one of the most profound and penetrating intellects." -- New York Times

"A great philosopher" -- The Guardian

"Schopenhauer's philosophy has had a special attraction for those who wonder about life's meaning, along with those engaged in music, literature, and the visual arts." -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Living Disaster: Schopenhauer for the Twenty-first Century	p. vii
Schopenhauer Timeline	p. xxiii
On the Suffering of the World	p. 1
On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live	p. 17
On the Vanity and Suffering of Life	p. 23
Freedom of the Will	p. 39
Principle of Sufficient Reason of Knowing	p. 53
The World as Will	p. 59
Knowledge of the Idea	p. 79
On the Inner Nature of Art	p. 97
Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics	p. 103
The Artist and the Sublime	p. 133
On Education	p. 151
On Noise	p. 159
On Women	p. 165
On Suicide	p. 179
On the Basis of Ethics	p. 185
Eternal and Temporal Justice	p. 197
Compassion	p. 209
Mystics, Saints, Ascetics	p. 233
Death and Rebirth	p. 259
The Fullness of Nothingness	p. 319
Suggested Further Reading	p. 325
Sources	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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