In late nineteenth-century France, the pessimist Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann was often portrayed as a disease-like force infecting the French body politic.
This monograph, the first full-length study of Laforgue in English for 25 years, reveals how Laforgue\'s formative encounter with Schopenhauer and Hartmann was crucially.
For many French writers, however, German philosophy\'s \'otherness\' was a source of fascination, and foremost among them was Jules Laforgue.
In late nineteenth-century France, the pessimist Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann was often portrayed as a disease-like force infecting the French body politic