With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contempor
This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tell
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 ce
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