Notes for a future reading of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed.

  • August 14, 2008
  • James Skemp
The below page references refer to the Signet Classic version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. suicide/life: 109-112, 421 marriage/children: 119 charity: 323 free will: 637 Great Idea/life: 679-680 Passages may be elaborated upon in future articles.

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Schopenhauer's Prefaces to The World as Will and Representation

  • February 11, 2007
  • James Skemp

Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) went through three editions in Schopenhauer's lifetime, and accordingly there are three prefaces, one for each edition. The first was written in 1818, the second in 1844, and the third in 1859.

Today I'll be looking at the preface of each of the three editions, and providing an analysis of what he has attempted to get across within each.

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