Schopenhauer (key Texts)

KEY TEXTS THOEMMES Printed and bound by Antony Rowe Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire KEY TEXTS Classic Studies in the History of Ideas SCHOPENHAUER Patrick Gardiner IT THOEMMES PRESS This edition published by Thoemmes Press, 1997 Thoemmes Press 11 Great George Street Bristol BS1 5RR, England US office: Distribution and Marketing 22883 Quicksilver Drive Dulles, Virginia 20166, USA ISBN 1 85506 525 8 This is a reprint of the 1963 edition © Patrick Gardiner, 1963 Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original book may be apparent. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE TO THE REPRINT EDITION My book on Schopenhauer originally appeared at a time when (as I remarked in the Preface) contemporary discussions of his philosophy and its significance were in short supply. Furthermore, over sixty years had elapsed since some of the English translations of his works had last been published, these not always being complete or indeed easy to come by. On both counts the situation today is very different. There are the following new translations: On the Basis of Morality, trans. E. F. J. Payne (Indianapolis, 1965). On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, trans. E. F. J. Payne (La Salle, Illinois, 1974). Parerga and Paralipomena, trans. E. F. J. Payne (2 vols., Oxford, 1974). On the Will in Nature, trans. E. F. J. Payne, ed. D. E. Cartwright (New York and Oxford, 1992). On Vision and Colours, trans. E. F. J. Payne, ed. D. E. Cartwright (Oxford, 1994). The World as Will and Idea, trans. J. Berman, ed. D. Berman (abridged edition, London,