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The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
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Part I:
Schopenhauer's Life as Background to his Work
The Ends of Explanation
The Great Tradition
More Arguments for Transcendental Idealism
Objects and Subjects
Bodies and Wills
The World as Will
The Flower of Existence
Metaphysics of the Person
Some Criticisms and Problems
Schopenhauer as Essayist and Aphorist
Part II:
Schopenhauer and the Idealists
Schopehauer and Later Thinkers
Schopenhauer's Influence on Wittenstein
A Note on Schopenhauer and Buddhism
Schopenhauer's Addendum on Homosexuality
Schopenhauer and Wagner
A Conjecture about Dylan Thomas
Misunderstanding Schopenhauer
Schopenhauer's Reputation

About the Author

Brian Magee is a noted philosopher, writer, critic, and broadcaster. His publications include Men of Ideas (1982), The Great Philosophers (1988), and (with Martin Milligan) On Blindness (1995). He has held visiting fellowships at Yale and Oxford Universities, among others. He has been Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at King's College, London since 1984, and he is an Honorary Fellow at Keble College, Oxford.

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Magee's study should however not merely be reviewed but also read; for it is thorough, lucid and wide-ranging...a substantial work.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*

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