Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

About the author

Rüdiger Safranski studies German, philosophy, and history in Frankfurt and Berlin. He has worked in adult education and was co-publisher of the magazine Berliner 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.

Summary

With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of philosophical predecessors and contemporaries like Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, and explores the sources of Schopenhauer’s profound alienation from their “secularized religion of reason.”

Product details

• Authors: Rudiger Safranski, Rüdiger Safranski
• Assisted by: Ewald Osers (Translation), Osers Ewald (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1991
• EAN: 9780674792760
• ISBN: 978-0-674-79276-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, Biography: general, Germany, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, C 1700 To C 1800