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The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

Author
Arthur Schopenhauer
Language
English
Length
418 pages
ISBN
9781787366978
Published
13 July 2023
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Metaphysics
  • Reality
  • Human existence
  • Will
  • Desire
  • Suffering
  • Phenomena
  • Consciousness
  • Perception
  • Knowledge

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Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Idea, volume 1: the world as representation, then the Will as the blind engine under it. A German metaphysics in English, Sovereign ebook — striving, appearance, the thing that will not sit still. Not a self-help Will. Kant in the background, Eastern notes, a system that made later Europe argue. Volume 1 lays the ground: how we see, what drives, why art might be a pause. Dense, famous, still the book people mean when they say Schopenhauer.

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) wrote The World as Will and Representation, a philosophy of desire, suffering, and art that later shaped Nietzsche, Wagner, and a long modern melancholy. He argued that will is the inner fact of the world, and that music and compassion are among the few exits. With 19 titles in our catalogue, Schopenhauer remains the metaphysician who made pessimism feel like clear seeing.

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