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Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena

The purpose of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is to offer translations of the best modern German editions of Schopenhauers work in a uniform format for Schopenhauer scholars, together with philosophical introductions and full editorial apparatus.

With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as incomparably more popular than everything up till now, Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation , along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes his Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, reflections on fate and clairvoyance, trenchant views on the philosophers and universities of his day, and an enlightening survey of the history of philosophy. The present volume offers a new translation, a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. This readable and scholarly edition will be an essential reference for those studying Schopenhauer, history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.

SABINE ROEHR is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Hubert Fichte: Poetische Erkenntnis. Montage, Synkretismus, Mimesis (1985) and A Primer on German Enlightenment (1995).

CHRISTOPHER JANAWAY is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His most recent books include Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002), and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsches Genealogy (2007). His most recently edited collections include The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge, 2000), and Better Consciousness: Schopenhauers Philosophy of Value (2009, co-edited with Alex Neill). He is General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer, in which he has translated The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (2009), and co-translated three other volumes.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Parerga and Paralipomena Short Philosophical Essays
Volume 1
Translated and Edited by
Sabine Roehr
Christopher Janaway
with an Introduction by
Christopher Janaway
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First published 2014
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 17881860.
[Parerga und Paralipomena. English]
Parerga and paralipomena : short philosophical essays / Arthur Schopenhauer ; translated and
edited by Sabine Roehr, Christopher Janaway ; with an introduction by Christopher Janaway.
pages cm. (The Cambridge edition of the works of Schopenhauer; Volume 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-87138-9
1. Philosophy. I. Roehr, Sabine, 1957-, translator. II. Title.
B3118.E5R64 2013
193dc23
2013026736
ISBN 978-0-521-87138-9 Hardback
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Contents
General editors preface

Schopenhauer is one of the great original writers of the nineteenth century, and a unique voice in the history of thought. His central concept of the will leads him to regard human beings as striving irrationally and suffering in a world that has no purpose, a condition redeemed by the elevation of aesthetic consciousness and finally overcome by the wills self-denial and a mystical vision of the self as one with the world as a whole. He is in some ways the most progressive post-Kantian, an atheist with profound ideas about the human essence and the meaning of existence which point forward to Nietzsche, Freud and existentialism. He was also the first major Western thinker to seek a synthesis with Eastern thought. Yet at the same time he undertakes an ambitious global metaphysics of a conservative, more or less pre-Kantian kind, and is driven by a Platonic vision of escape from empirical reality into a realm of higher knowledge.

Schopenhauer was born in 1788, and by 1809 had gone against his familys expectations of a career as a merchant and embarked on a university career. He completed his doctoral dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in 1813, then spent several years in intensive preparation of what became the major work of his life, The World as Will and Representation , which was published at the end of 1818, with 1819 on the title page. Shortly afterwards his academic career suffered a setback when his only attempt at a lecture course ended in failure. Thereafter Schopenhauer adopted a stance of intellectual self-sufficiency and antagonism towards university philosophy, for which he was repaid by a singular lack of reaction to his writings. In 1835 he published On Will in Nature , an attempt to corroborate his metaphysics with findings from the sciences, and in 1841 two self-standing essays on free will and moral philosophy, entitled The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics . A large supplementary second volume to The World as Will and Representation appeared in 1844, accompanied by a revised version of the original which now appeared as Volume One; then in 1851 another two-volume work, Parerga and Paralipomena , a collection of essays and observations. Only in the 1850s did serious interest in Schopenhauers philosophy begin, with a favourable review appearing in an English journal and a few European universities offering courses on his work. In this final decade before his death in 1860 he published a third edition of The World as Will and Representation and a second edition of The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics . After Schopenhauers death his follower Julius Frauenstdt produced the first six-volume edition of his works in 1873, providing the basis for many subsequent German editions up to the Smtliche Werke edited by Arthur Hbscher, which we use as the basis for our translations in the present edition.

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