Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Janaway

Jun 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Kyle Munley

About this audiobook

Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will-a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind and the whole of nature. Seeing human behavior as that of a natural organism governed by the will to life, Schopenhauer developed radical insights concerning the unconscious and sexuality which influenced both psychologists and philosophers

About the author

Christopher Janaway is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton. His main work is in history of philosophy, specializing in the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche. Janaway's books include Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy.