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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization
Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction …
Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2
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 …
Schopenhauer: On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Other Writings
This volume of translations unites three shorter works by Arthur Schopenhauer that expand on themes from his book The World as Will and Representation. In On the Fourfold Root he …
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker
Hermann Diels (1848–1922), professor of classics at Berlin, is chiefly remembered for this collection of quotations from, and reports about, Presocratic philosophers; his system of …
Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation': Volume 1
First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, …
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer's The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (1841) consists of two groundbreaking essays: 'On the Freedom of the Will' and 'On the Basis of Morals'. The essays …
Mesmerismus
Early in his career, the German doctor Franz Mesmer (1734–1815) became fascinated by the concept that the invisible natural forces or 'magnetism' exerted by planets, minerals and …
Theorie der musischen Künste der Hellenen: Volume 1, Griechische Rhythmik
Rudolf Westphal (1826-92) originally studied theology at the University of Marburg before turning to classical philology and comparative linguistics. He learnt Sanskrit and Arabic …
Dietrich von Bern and Tannhauser
Originally published in 1936 as part of the 'Medieval Epics' series for Cambridge Contact Readers, this book contains the stories of the folk heroes Dietrich von Bern and …
Aeschylos: Eumeniden
Karl Ottfrid von Müller's translation of and commentary on Aeschylus' play The Eumenides, the concluding drama in the Oresteia trilogy, was first published in 1833. The play is a …
Heine: 'On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany'
This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), famous poet, …
Vorschule der Aesthetik
Although Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801–87) had studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, he never practised as a doctor. In the 1820s he published satirical evaluations of the …