The World as Will and Idea

arthur schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea holds that all nature, including human, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, & the only lasting good thru ascetic renunciation. Unique in western philosophy for his affinity with Eastern thought, Schopenhauer influenced philosophers, writers & composers including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Wagner, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann & Beckett.

Genres philosophynonfictiongerman literatureclassicspsychologymetaphysicsgermanyunfinishedreligionreference

null pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1818

This edition

Format: null pages, Hardcover
Published: June 1, 1975 by Ams Pr Inc
ISBN: 9780404150600
ASIN: 0404150608
Language: English

About the author

arthur schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. Schopenhauer attempted to make his career as an academic by correcting and expanding Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world.

He was the son of author Johanna Schopenhauer and the older brother of Adele Schopenhauer.