Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought.
It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher..
Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotations in half a dozen languages.
Arthur Hübscher.
Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr.
Payne appeared that decisively supplanted the older one.
J.
F.
In 1958, a new translation by E.
For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration.
Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.
It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work.
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought
