The world as will and representation vol 2

Immerse Yourself in This Seminal Philosophic Work

Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought. It is both a brilliant synthesis of western and eastern thought and a wholly original work that has helped millions over many generations.

For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared that decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotations in half a dozen languages. It is thus the most useful edition for the stu

The World as Will and Inclusion, Volume II

October 18, 2017

This manual completes the second edition of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, published in 1844, by Arthur Schopenhauer. In it, Schopenhauer tries to elucidate and deepen the contents of the imaginative work (published, unaltered, as volume 1). It spans more than 50 chapters and almost 700 pages and is accordinlgy longer and deeper than the authentic work.

(I read this book as a source of additional knowledge on key topics of volume 1; I skipped the chapters on minor details like madness, a theory of laughter, etc. This is all outdated anyways. I read almost all of the chapters on book 1 (the world as representation) and book 2 (the world as will); just these chapters form up more than half of the entire volume 2. I also read some selected chapters on book 3 (aesthetics) and the most important chapters on book 4 (ethics). So, I read a fair bit of book 2, next to the original work.)

At some points the book is interesting, and at some points the book is even a worthy extension of the original work, but I have to admit that I found the totality of 1200 pages for just one philosophical work a bit too much. Even Kant,

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2, Volume 2

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work, and, conceived and published before the philosopher was 30 and expanded 25 years later, it is the summation of a lifetime of thought.
For 70 years, the only unabridged English translation of this work was the Haldane-Kemp collaboration. In 1958, a new translation by E. F. J. Payne appeared which decisively supplanted the older one. Payne's translation is superior because it corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the Haldane-Kemp translation, and it is based on the definitive 1937 German edition of Schopenhauer's work prepared by Dr. Arthur Hübscher. Payne's edition is the first to translate into English the text's many quotatioins in half a dozen languages, and Mr. Payne has provided a comprehensive index of 2,500 items. It is thus the most useful edition for the student or teacher.

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The World as Will and Representation, Volume 2

This is the third volume of the projected six volume English-language edition of the collected works of Arthur Schopenhauer. The first volume was The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (2009), and the second was the first volume of The World as Will and Representation (2011), which was originally published in 1819. In 1844 Schopenhauer published a revised version of it, and added an entire second volume in the form of a commentary on the first, thus completing the magnum opus. It is this second volume, translated and edited by Judith Norman, Alastair Welchman, and series editor Christopher Janaway, which is here under review.

Perhaps as a result of the discipline of translating Schopenhauer, the introduction is more lucid and useful than is often the case, identifying some of the major controversies and stumbling blocks with admirable precision. The translators again raise the question of the "single thought" (xiii) Schopenhauer claimed lay behind all of his philosophizing, and suggest that there is a clue in the four book division of both the first and second volumes, which prompts the reader to consider the will, then repr