Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that

Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy. Volume 2 clarifies his metaphysics of the will and contains important reflections on topics including sex, desire, death, and salvation. This new translation reflects the eloquence and power of Schopenhauer's prose, and

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, 1 (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

Essays and Aphorisms (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

One of the philosophers of the nineteenth century, believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This title includes his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other

The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

These two important essays show Schopenhauer at his most accessible, offering two self-contained and clearly argued contributions to ethical theory, published here in a new translation that preserves Schopenhauer's style in a lucid and engaging way. This is also the only paperback edition to

Jan Otto - Kus historie české knihy - Matthews Jack

Biografická esej o Arthuru Schopenhauerovi, jedné z nejrozporuplnějších postav německé klasické filosofie, je pravým opakem akademických dějin filosofie. Autor, inspirován mimo jiné psychoanalýzou, vychází z reálií filosofova života, z jeho myšlenek i faktů historických a s

Eristika Arthura Schopenhauera: Príručka prežitia vo svete trolov

Kniha Eristika Arthura Schopenhauera: Príručka prežitia vo svete trolov:Viete, ako presvedčiť o svojej pravde tých druhých? Niekedy je to o logike a rozumných argumentoch, inokedy o citoch, trikoch a klamoch. Každému sa občas môže stať, že hovorí rozumne, ale ten druhý nepočúva,

Essays and Aphorisms (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking

Horrors and Absurdities of Religion (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Examines ethics, religion and psychology. This selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of

World as Will & Idea (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art and the only lasting good through ascetic

On the Suffering of the World (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

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

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, 2 (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback)

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the

On the Suffering of the World (Schopenhauer Arthur)(Paperback / softback)

Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art, morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (Janaway Christopher)(Paperback)

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein

30 životov - Alžbeta Pňačeková

„Osud mieša karty, my hráme,“ napísal nemecký filozof Arthur Schopenhauer. O tom, ako ich zamiešal 30 známym Slovákom, je táto kniha. Prečítajte si, čo ste ešte nečítali o Hane Hegerovej, Marekovi Brezovskom, Petrovi Pišťankovi Rudolfovi Slobodovi či Eve Kostolányiovej. A o

Umění dostat v každé debatě za pravdu - Arthur Schopenhauer

O tom, jak správně vést diskusi, pokud chcete stát na jejím konci jako vítěz, napsal snad nejlepší knihu filozof Arthur Schopenhauer. Kniha, jež je známá také pod názvem Eristická dialektika, obsahuje bohatý a strukturovaný přehled příkladů, jakým způsobem lze diskusi vést

Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit (Dienstag Joshua Foa)(Paperback)

Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet pessimist remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance

A Philosophy of Boredom (Svendsen Lars)(Paperback)

It has been described as a 'tame longing without any particular object' by Schopenhauer, 'a bestial and indefinable affliction' by Dostoevsky, and 'time's invasion of your world system' by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom

Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy (Safranski Rudiger)(Paperback)

This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Rudiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling,

The Schopenhauer Cure (Yalom Irvin)(Paperback)

Suddenly confronted with his own mortality, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work. He seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured--miraculously transformed by the pessimistic

In the Presence of Schopenhauer (Houellebecq Michel)(Paperback)

The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was bowled over by it and he hunted down a copy of

Utrpení knížete Sternenhocha - Ladislav Klíma, Bedřich Glasser

Autor ovlivněný především filosofií A. Schopenhauera a F. Nietzscheho a inspirováný jejich radikálním individualismem a koncepcí vůle napsal ve dvacátých a třicátých letech několik pozoruhodných próz, které právem patří do evropské literatury. Utrpení knížete

Léčba Schopenhauerem - Irvin D. Yalom

V době, kdy konfrontace s tématem smrti přiměje významného psychiatra Hertzfelda zamýšlet se nad smyslem svého životního povolání, naváže znovu kontakt s Philipem, atraktivním a arogantním člověkem závislým na sexu, kterého léčil před patnácti lety. Filozof Philip nyní

Unsnarling the World-Knot (Griffin David Ray)(Paperback)

The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the world-knot, has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists--those who accept the reality of the physical world--the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus