Arthur Schopenhauer

by Helen Zimmern

s/t: His Life & Philosophy
Introduction
The Early Years
The Student Years
Intellectual Devolopment & Early Productions
Life at Dresden
Sojourn in Italy
The Dissatisfied Years
Residence at Frankfurt
The Dawn of Fame
Fame & Death
His Opus Maximum
Ethics & Aesthetics
Bibliography
Index

Genres: Philosophy, Biography

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1876

About the author

Helen Zimmern was a naturalized British writer and translator born in Germany. She was instrumental in making European culture more accessible in English.

Reviews

[Tommi Nuutinen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book about nihilism, positive nihilism I mean. Schopenhauer was mentor to Nietzsche and opened doors to all kinds of hermit mammals, like Bukowski. Read this, and you may notice that you are unhappy m, but in a good way.

[Andreas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Positively, I liked the telling of Schopenhauer's life by using letters, journals, testimonies of his contemporaries and many other sources. They provided a rather direct access into his life than one given indirectly through a simple narrative.
Negatively, the book is full of citations in different languages like French, German, Italian, Latin, and Ancient Greek with no translations whatsoever. Not sure who the expected audience of readers were at the time she wrote the book, but this greatly disrupts the reading for me.

[Erik Graff · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this biographical introduction to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer as part of the preparation for writing a dissertation on the philosophical influences on the thought of C.G. Jung, having only read Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation beforehand.