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, Hegel--and explores the sources of his profound alienation from their "secularized religion of reason." He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauer's personal and family life that reads like a Romantic novel: the struggle to break free from a domineering father, the attempt to come to terms with his...
This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenh...
![Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy Rudiger Safranski Ewald Osers R]diger Safranski 9780674792760 Harvard University Press](/9780674792760_schopenhauer_and_the_wild_years_of_philosophy.jpg "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy")
