Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

Rüdiger Safranski

Translated by Ewald Osers

    Translator's Note

    Preface

    Book One
    The Warehouse Island
    Life and Le Havre
    The Mountains and the Counting-House
    A Father's Ghost
    Weimar
    The Outsider
    Between Plato and Kant
    Fichte and the Ego
    The 'Better Consciousness'
    Philosophy at Arms

    Book Two
    The Thinker Without a Stage
    Return to Weimar
    Goethe
    The Will as the 'Thing in Itself'
    The World as Will and Representation
    The Great No
    First Italian Journey
    The Unattended Lecturer
    Disappointment in Berlin
    Flight from Berlin
    On the Will in Nature
    The Mystery of Freedom
    The Mountain Comes to the Prophet
    The Comedy of Fame

    Chronology

    Editions of Schopenhauer's Works, Sources, Abbreviations

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

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Rüdiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was copublisher of the magazine Berlin Hefte. He is also the author of a widely acclaimed biography of E.T.A. Hoffman.

Ewald Osers is the distinguished translator of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from German and Czech, including the correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.