by Arthur Schopenhauer · Newton Compton Editori · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854123830
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Dive into Arthur Schopenhauer's magnum opus, 'The World as Will and Representation,' a comprehensive edition that explores the metaphysical understanding of the world through will and representation. Schopenhauer presents a dualism between the appearance of things and their essence, revealing a pessimistic view of human existence as a constant struggle for infinite knowledge, marked by pain and frustration. In this work, the author highlights art, especially music, as an antidote that allows us to contemplate the universal, albeit ephemerally. This edition includes an introduction by Marcella D'Abbiero and a translation by Gian Carlo Giani.
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.
