Discípulo de Kant, la obra de Schopenhauer (1788-1860) se e como una crítica radical al idealismo alemán, especialmente a Fichte y Hegel. Al mismo tiempo, su pensamiento tuvo un influjo enorme en pensadores y artistas de la talla de Wagner, Nietzche, Freud, Thomas Mann, Borges... El pensamiento de Arthur Schopenhauer está alcanzando en los últimos años una enorme vigencia. En este breve libro, el filósofo alemán reflexiona sobre la vida, el amor y la muerte.
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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.
