{"product_id":"schopenhauer-and-the-wild-years-of-philosophy-9780674792760","title":"Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Rdiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant  Fichte  Schelling  Hegeland explores the sources of his profound alienation from their secularized religion of reason. He also provides a narrative of Schopenhauers personal and family life that reads like a Romantic novel: the struggle to break free from a domineering father  the attempt to come to terms with his mothers literary and social success (she was a well-known writer and a member of Goethes Weimar circle)  the loneliness and despair when his major philosophical work  The World as Will and Representation  was ignored by the academy. Along the way Safranski portrays the rich culture of Goethes Weimar  Hegels Berlin  and other centers of German literary and intellectual life.  When Schopenhauer first proposed his philosophy of weeping and gnashing of teeth  during the heady wild years of Romantic idealism  it found few followers. After the disillusionments and failures of 1848  his work was rediscovered by philosophers and literary figures. Writers from Nietzsche to Samuel Beckett have responded to Schopenhauers refusal to seek salvation through history.  The first biography of Schopenhauer to appear in English in this century  Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy succeeds in bringing to life an intriguing figure in philosophy and the intellectual battles of his time  whose consequences still shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666248130613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674792769","price":53.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674792760.jpg?v=1782424967","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/schopenhauer-and-the-wild-years-of-philosophy-9780674792760","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}