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This is the only complete English translation of one of the most significant and fascinating works of the great philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The Parerga (Volume 1) are six long essays; the Paralipomena (Volume 2) are shorter writings arranged under thirty-one different subject-headings. These works won widespread attention with their publication in 1851, helping to secure lasting international fame for Schopenhauer. Indeed, their intellectual vigor, literary power, and rich diversity are still extraordinary even today.


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  • Paperback: 714 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 28, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199242216
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199242214
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.6 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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41 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Schopenhauer's Best Work", October 22, 1997
By mycrof4@ibm.net (New Paltz, New York, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
I recently had the opportunity to find this gem in the SUNY New Paltz Library. Having read all of Arthur Schopenhauers other works, I have searched endlessly for the last five years to acquire it . Not being a student of the school I was unable to borrow it, thus I had to sit and read all 1200 pages of Vol.1 and 2 in the Library. The pleasure was unspeakable. The book was written in his later years and brings out the real Schopenhauer , The pessimist and realist that we all love. I will put in a request for Amazon to find it for it is a true masterpiece , one that any student of Philosophy must have on his or her bookshelf. One can not say that he knows Schopenhauer unless he has read this book !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Schopenhauer's Claim to Fame, October 29, 2002
Actually, Parerga was not the book which S. considered to be his masterpiece; The World as Will and Representation was. But it made him famous, especially in England. It's striking too how weak human nature is, even in the case of a man considered to be both a genius and wise. Already rich by inheritance, both supremely intelligent and extremely clever, highly educated, and ultra-cynical about people, the temperamental philosopher craved FAME all his life. (He got it, just before he died.)

Not everything S. writes about in this book (or for that matter any of his other books) is relevant or interesting or correct - you may want to skip his physical theory of colors, for example. But the reader does get a sense of the range and brilliance of his multilingual mind. Many of his thoughts are timeless and true everywhere in the world.

S. caught my attention not because I'm interested in philosophy generally - I most certainly am not - but rather because he was one of Einstein's heroes, and Einstein is one of mine. Einstein loved to quote him, and apparently had his picture hanging in his office.

Interestingly, Hitler also counted S. as his hero. The only book he took to the front as a soldier in the First World War was Schopenhauer's masterpiece, and later as Fuehrer he quoted S. in long, rambling paragraphs in his own table talk. One wouldn't normally expect much in common between the greatest mind who ever lived and this anti-intellectual warmonger. Hitler was an antisemite, so perhaps that's one reason why he was attracted to S. But S. was most liberal and generous in his misanthropic hatreds - one doesn't find him discriminate for or against any particular group. Perhaps Hitler didn't know about the far more damning things S. had to say about Germans?

S. influenced many philosophers, such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, but I'm not familiar enough with philosophy to elaborate on this point. He also inspired many other creative minds who were not actually philosophers: Richard Wagner (a fanatical devotee to S. and to whom Hitler was also a fanatical devotee), Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Sir Winston Churchill (mentioned S. in his autobiography My Early Life), and the quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger, among numerous others. (Notice that the last three were Nobel prizewinners?) Even the sharp-tongued and critical Wolfgang Pauli (another Nobel physicist) took him seriously. If you want to know why S. was so influential, then this is a good place to start. Parerga is easier to read than his other books, with the exception of his two essays on morality. Try to get Vol. I as well, but if you must choose, get Vol. II - it's longer and has a good index, and a good index is always useful in any book.

Start with Parerga; then after you're familiar with his philosophy, move on to his main work. But don't forget his Essay on the Freedom on the Will - which stands alone as a real masterpiece in all philosophy, even more outstanding than his other works.

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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars schopenhauer, pessimist good and undefeated, October 21, 1999
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Schopenhauer is still worth the read, maybe even more today in the persistence of the me generation and the collapse of any serious interest in metaphysical speculation. In turn crafty, sentimental, realistic, and realistically bitter, he never fails to stimulate. Even a case for his subtextual optimism might be interesting.
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