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This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale

Introduction
Essays
On the Suffering of the World
On the Vanity of Existence
On the Antithesis of Thing in Itself and Appearance
On Affirmation and Denial of the Will to Live
On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being by Death
On Suicide
On Women
On Thinking for Yourself
On Religion: A Dialogue
Aphorisms
On Philosophy and the Intellect
On Ethics
On Law and Politics
On Aesthetics
On Psychology
On Religion
On Books and Writing
On Various Subjects
List of Correspondences

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 26 August 1976
      ISBN-13 9780140442274
      978-0140442274
      ISBN-10 0140442278
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

      Table of Contents
      Essays and Aphorisms - Arthur Schopenhauer Selected and Translated with an Introduction by R. J. Hollingdale

      Introduction
      Essays
      On the Suffering of the World
      On the Vanity of Existence
      On the Antithesis of Thing in Itself and Appearance
      On Affirmation and Denial of the Will to Live
      On the Indestructibility of our Essential Being by Death
      On Suicide
      On Women
      On Thinking for Yourself
      On Religion: A Dialogue
      Aphorisms
      On Philosophy and the Intellect
      On Ethics
      On Law and Politics
      On Aesthetics
      On Psychology
      On Religion
      On Books and Writing
      On Various Subjects
      List of Correspondences

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