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This richly detailed biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century philosophy pays equal attention to the life and to the work of "Arthur Schopenhauer." Rudiger Safranski places this visionary skeptic in the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hege[...]

The renowned scholar Rudiger Safranski's Romanticism: A German Affair both offers an accessible overview of Romanticism and, more critically, traces its lasting influence, for better and for ill, on German culture. Safranski begins with the eighteenth century Sturm und Drang movement, which would so[...]