Author: Safranski, Rüdiger.
Title: Schopenhauer & the Wild Years of Philosophy
Description: Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, (1990). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, 385 pp, PAPERBACK. Translated from the German by Ewald Osers.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This biography of Arthur Schopenhauer, a key figure in 19th-century philosophy pays equal attention to his life and work. Safranski places him in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries - Kant,Fichte, Schelling, Hegel - and explores the sources of his alienation from their "secularized religion of reason". In doing so, he also provides an account of German literary and intellectual life of the 19th century. In addition, Safranski provides a narrative of Schopenhauer's personal and family life" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosophy, Biography, History, , , , ,