Description This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century Philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
R diger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel--and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason." He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauer\'s personal and fami.
Description This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century Philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer