The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings

ISBN-13:	9780061768248
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Series:	Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Pages:	338
Sales rank:	224,522
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)

“We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully.” — Alain De Botton, author of The Consolations of PhilosophyThe 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 indispensable 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.