By David E. Cartwright
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was once probably the most unique and provocative thinkers of the 19th century. He spent an entire life striving to appreciate the that means of dwelling in a global the place soreness and dying are ubiquitous. In his quest to unravel "the ever-disquieting riddle of existence," Schopenhauer explored nearly each size of human life, constructing a darkly compelling worldview that discovered deep resonance in modern literature, song, philosophy, and psychology. this is often the 1st complete biography of Schopenhauer written in English. putting him in his old and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the tale of Schopenhauer's existence to show the entire diversity of his philosophy. He deals an absolutely documented portrait during which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured relations lifestyles, his early formative affects, his serious loyalty to Kant, his own interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent dating with Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his fight to make his philosophy identified, and his response to his late-arriving popularity. The Schopenhauer who emerges during this biography is the advanced writer of a philosophy that had an important effect on figures as assorted as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Hamburg was also a no-nonsense, practical, merchant’s 34 Schopenhauer, Gesammelte Briefe, p. 48, Vitae Curriculum Arthurii Schopenhaueri, Phil: Doct, 31 December 1819. 190 on Sat Apr 12 12:37:56 BST 2014. 004 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2014 The Affirmation of the Will 15 town in which Heinrich Floris could feel at home, although it lacked the cosmopolitanism of Danzig. Hamburg would be the location of most of Arthur’s development through his eighteenth year, and his experiences there, as well as his two years in France and two years on a European pleasure tour, would shape his character and attitudes in fundamental ways.
2, p. 614/S¨amtliche Werke, Vol. 6, p. 650. He quoted Byron’s original English. The quotation is from Sardanapal, act 1, scene 2. 190 on Sat Apr 12 12:37:56 BST 2014. 004 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2014 The Affirmation of the Will 25 philosophically vested in the theory that children inherited their intellects from their mothers. ”61 This claim, however, did not mean that Johanna’s work trumped Arthur’s. He regarded his work as a work of genius, and he believed that women have never produced a work of genius.
225. L¨utkehaus, Die Schopenhauers, p. 164, Johanna to Arthur, 28 April 1807. Schopenhauer, Gesammelte Briefe, p. 159, Schopenhauer to Anthime Gr´egoire de Bl´esimaire, 10 December 1836. Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, p. 625/S¨amtliche Werke, Vol. 6, p. 662. Johanna Schopenhauer, Jugendleben, p. 225. 190 on Sat Apr 12 12:37:56 BST 2014. 004 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2014 14 Schopenhauer: A Biography free cities of Danzig and Thorn. When the city council unanimously passed a resolution to place Danzig under Prussian sovereignty on 11 March 1793, the feisty republican Heinrich Floris immediately resolved to abandon Danzig, as did a number of anti-Prussian families.