The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) once wrote that “the man who feels himself drawn to philosophy must ...

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately, didn’t have much to offer us in his consolations about death, but, more importantly, he succeeded in helping us believe that life was worth living, even ...

Alexis Lloyd, the son of a psychoanalyst, made a group therapy film that pulled him into a vortex of endless group therapy.

“How do you write a book?” Like most authors, I get this question often. Sometimes, I find that the person is asking about overcoming specific obstacles, such as getting started (answer: first spend ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Nietzsche and Wagner paid similar homage to Schopenhauer. The young Nietzsche, in Schopenhauer as Educator, the ...

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a German philosopher, best known for his book, “The World as Will and Representation”. He was among the first thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition to ...

Arthur Schopenhauer—the 19 th century German philosopher for whom human existence was a perpetually swinging “pendulum between suffering and boredom,” and the world itself a hell in which “human ...

Although outside the realm of academic philosophy, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was nevertheless one of the most important philosophers of the 19th century, best known for his eastern influence and ...