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Lädt ... On The Suffering of the Worldvon Arthur Schopenhauer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Schopenhauer has some pretty great ideas although to me, he didn't express them very eloquently and clearly which made me re-read several passages. His first few essays were brilliant, although it was hard to take him seriously after his misogynistic essay On Women where he contradicts the philosophy he espouses in previous essays. (The need for objectivity, being aware of the phenomenal nature of the logical system etc) I was able to detach myself from that though and admit that his last essay on writing redeemed him if only a little. ( ) Where he's good, Schopenhauer is very good (On the Suffering of the World, On Thinking for Yourself, On Philosophy and the Intellect), but where he's bad he's execrable (On Women). Dour and pessimistic, he's the Morrissey of philosophy. All is vanity, life is short and joy is fleeting. I have to wonder if today he would be diagnosed with clinical depression, rather than the romantic melancholia of genius. So, that said, I found much in common with him, in a mordantly humourous way, as I'm inclined to a glass-half-empty view of life (much as I seek to amend that). Where I think he goes wrong, particularly so in his views upon women, is in not challenging the assumptions and cultural perspectives of his time and place. He takes these views as given and does not seem to be conscious of the possibility that the qualities he berates in woman may be roles forced upon them by society, nor that his own perspective may be skewed by the privileged position he holds in that society as a man. Worth reading, though I'm sure he would not have said the same about this review, laden as it is with plebian affectations to style, parentheses and deviod of original thought, relying instead upon a disection of the thoughts of another. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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On the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence. Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These texts, produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer's long life, reveal a unique kind of philosophy, expressed in a singular style. Eschewing the tradition of dry, totalizing, academic philosophy prevalent during the time, Schopenhauer's later writings mark a shift towards a philosophy of aphorisms, fragments, anecdotes and observations, written in a literary style that is by turns antagonistic, resigned, confessional, and filled with all the fragile contours of an intellectual memoir. Here Schopenhauer allows himself to pose challenging questions regarding the fate of the human species, the role of suffering in the world, and the rift between self and world that increasingly has come to define human existence, to this day. It is these writings of Schopenhauer that later generations of artists, poets, musicians, and philosophers would identify as exemplifying the pessimism of their era, and perhaps of our own as well. On the Suffering of the World is presented with an introduction that places Schopenhauer's thought in its intellectual context, while also connecting it to contemporary concerns over climate change, the anthropocene, and the spectre of human extinction. The book also includes a bibliography and chronology of Schopenhauer's life. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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