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Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
Rudiger Safranski
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Paperback. A biography of this key figure in 19th-century philosophy. Paying equal attention to his life and work, Safranski also places Schopenhauer in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries and explores the sources of his alienation from their "secularized religion of reason". Translator(s): Osers, Ewald. Num Pages: 394 pages, chronology, editions of Schopenhauer's works, sources and abbreviations, notes, bibliogra. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Rüdiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel—and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their “secularized religion of reason.” He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauer’s personal and family life that reads like a Romantic novel: the struggle to break free from a domineering father, the attempt to come to terms with his mother’s literary and social success (she was a well-known writer ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
394
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674792760
SKU
V9780674792760
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About Rudiger Safranski
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
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.
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Diane Weber
Washington Times
[This book] will be the Schopenhauer biography of our time.
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