Essays of Schopenhauer
This selection from Arthur Schopenhauer's shorter writings, translated by Mrs. Rudolf Dircks with a biographical note, draws mainly on Parerga and Paralipomena, the collection of 1851 that finally made him famous after decades of neglect. The essays are the most readable things he wrote: On Authorship and Style, On Noise, On Education, On Reading and Books, The Emptiness of Existence, On Women, which has been argued over ever since, Thinking for Oneself, a dialogue on the indestructibility of our true being by death, a dialogue on religion, Psychological Observations, the Metaphysics of Love, Physiognomy, and On Suicide. Schopenhauer's pessimism is relieved by wit and by a clarity rare among German philosophers. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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