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Studies in Pessimism

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Read by D.E. Wittkower · 3 h 25 min · 10 parts

  1. Note

    2:03

  2. On the sufferings of the world

    33:34

  3. On the vanity of existence

    12:44

  4. On suicide

    14:06

  5. Immortaliy: a dialogue

    11:12

  6. Psychological observations

    52:33

  7. On education

    18:22

  8. Of women

    36:22

  9. On noise

    12:39

  10. A few parables

    12:11

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Gathered from Schopenhauer's later writings, these essays set out his famously bleak view of existence with unusual clarity and bite. He argues that life swings between pain and boredom, that happiness is mostly the absence of suffering, and that the will driving all living things guarantees dissatisfaction. Across pieces on the vanity of existence, the sorrows of the world, death, and human character, he writes as a plainspoken moralist rather than a system builder, which is why these short essays have stayed in print for well over a century. Bracing, witty, and unafraid to give offense, they offer the quickest way into his thought for anyone new to it.

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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher whose bleak, will-centered metaphysics and elegant prose influenced Nietzsche, Wagner, Tolstoy, and Freud. Long ignored in his lifetime, he found fame only in his final years, and his pessimism became one of the nineteenth century's most distinctive philosophical voices.

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Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
90
Language
English
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D.E. Wittkower