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"... the first full-length, English-language biography of the philsopher: a worthy successor to Rudiger Safranski's lush, sometimes romantic Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, and a timely volume as well... likely the most authoritative English-language biography to emerge in this generation, Schopenhauer: A Biography is an essential addition to the bookshelf that holds the philosopher's books... The biography can be highly recommended both to those who are familiar with Schopenhauer's thought and to those who come to it for the first time..." --George Hunka, Superfluities Redux "...Backed by thorough, up-to-date research, Cartwright (University of Wisconsin--Whitewater) offers the first comprehensive biography in English of this "pessimistic" philosopher... Cartwright writes a compelling narrative, highlighting Schopenhauer's esteem for Kant and Goethe, lack of social skills and misogyny, interest in Eastern religious philosophy, and ad hominem attacks on all things Hegelian... this is a valuable examination of a significant figure... Recommended..." --S. Young, McHenry County College, CHOICE "...Cartwright's biography is so comprehensive and so packed with facts, dates, details, conversations, transcribed or summarized letters, side-stories and the like, that it would be presumptuous for a reviewer (and nonphilosopher) to single out any main thrust -- the whole stands most sturdily on its own and to emphasize one or several features would be to neglect the whole. Each reader will find his or her own "most interesting" details or ideas on which to reflect... At 548 pages of text -- not including the preface and a lengthy index -this biography is not light reading, yet it is satisfying and, in some senses, enlightening..." --Keith Harris, Ph.D., Chief of Research for the Department of Behavioral Health in San Bernardino County, California, METAPSYCHOLOGY
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most original and provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century. He spent a lifetime striving to understand the meaning of living in a world where suffering and death are ubiquitous. In his quest to solve "the ever-disquieting riddle of existence," Schopenhauer explored almost every dimension of human existence, developing a darkly compelling worldview that found deep resonance in contemporary literature, music, philosophy, and psychology. This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship with Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame. The Schopenhauer who emerges in this biography is the complex author of a philosophy that had a significant influence on figures as diverse as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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