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Schopenhauer: A Biography

In recent years academic presses have inundated the English-language book market with expository and explanatory publications on individual philosophers or an individual work by a philosopher, typically authored by a select team of international specialists. These companions and cooperative commentaries are designed both as introductions and orientations for the student reader and as surveys of the current state of research for the advanced reader or scholar. The auxiliary corps of such handbooks has established itself as a third force in addition to the single-author monograph and the topical multiple-author essay collection in the arsenal of academic publishing. The major publishers effectively have turned away from making available the revised proceedings of academic conferences on specialized topics, turning instead to more generally-oriented work that is commissioned by the presses and their academic series editors with a close regard to supply and demand in the academic publication market.

The didactic turn in academic philosophical publishing a

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Schopenhauer: A Biography

December 7, 2013

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was born into a north German merchant's family whose activities were centered in Hamburg. His father, who was distant and nagged Arthur constantly about his handwriting and posture, was also mentally unstable and committed suicide when Arthur was in his late teens. His mother was an early free spirit, who, after her oppressive husband's death, moved to Weimar, started a bi-weekly salon attended by many of the luminaries of the German literary world (including Goethe, who interceded on Arthur's behalf at the beginning of his university education), and commenced writing. She was for a time the best selling female author in the German speaking world. However, both Arthur and Cartwright saw her as self-centered and only weakly maternal. Arthur grew to despise her and eventually cut off all ties with her. But, then, Arthur despised almost everybody he knew, referring to his fellow human beings as "unfeathered bipeds"...

From a early age Schopenhauer was caustic and arrogant, traits which only became more pr

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Arthur Schopenhauer

1. Life: 1788–1860

Exactly a month younger than the English Romantic poet, Lord Byron (1788–1824), who was born on January 22, 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer came into the world on February 22, 1788 in Danzig [Gdansk, Poland] – a city that had a long history in international trade as a member of the Hanseatic League. The Schopenhauer family was of Dutch heritage, and the philosopher’s father, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer (1747–1805), was a successful merchant and shipowner who groomed his son to assume control of the family’s business. A future in the international business trade was envisioned from the day Arthur was born, as reflected in how Schopenhauer’s father carefully chose his son’s first name on account of its identical spelling in German, French and English. In March 1793, when Schopenhauer was five years old, his family moved to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg after the formerly free city of Danzig was annexed by Prussia.

Schopenhauer toured through Europe several times with his family as a young