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Schopenhauer's Politics by Jakob Norberg
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) lived through an era of great political turmoil, but previous assessments of his political thought have portrayed him as a pessimistic observer with no constructive solutions to offer. By assembling and contextualizing Schopenhauer's dispersed comments on political matters, this book reveals that he developed a distinct conception of politics. In opposition to rising ideological movements such as nationalism or socialism, Schopenhauer denied that politics can ever bring about universal emancipation or fraternal unity. Instead, he viewed politics as a tool for mitigating rather than resolving the conflicts of a fundamentally imperfect world. Jakob Norberg's fascinating book reconstructs Schopenhauer's political ideas and shows how they relate to the dominant debates and trends during the period in which he lived. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.-
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Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
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Political Theory and Postmodernism
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The Mask of Enlightenment
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Hegel's Social Philosophy
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Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory
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Kant's Theory of Virtue
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Brentano and Intrinsic Value
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Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference
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Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
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Adorno
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Kant's Theory of Taste
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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment
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Saussure
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Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism
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Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory
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Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism
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Kierkegaard on Faith and Love
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Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy
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Music, Philosophy, and Modernity
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Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God
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Heidegger's Analytic
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Understanding Moral Obligation
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Foucault on Freedom
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Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy
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Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War
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Meinong and the Principle of Independence
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Analytic Philosophy and the Return of Hegelian Thought
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Husserl and the Promise of Time
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Heidegger's Concept of Truth
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Kant on Beauty and Biology
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Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy
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Heidegger's Social Ontology
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Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion
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Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience
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Kant and the Fate of Autonomy
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Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
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The Persistence of Romanticism
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Nietzsche's Dangerous Game
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Comte after Positivism
'This is a splendid bookNorberg brings Schopenhauer to life as an eclectic modern political thinker who was focused above all on deflating the grand ideologies of nationalism and socialism and the lessening of cruelty in everyday life.' , Joshua Dienstag, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jakob Norberg is Professor of German Studies at Duke University. He is the author of The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism (2022) and articles in the Schopenhauer Yearbook and The Schopenhauerian Mind.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009491556 |
| Title | Schopenhauer's Politics |
| Author | Jakob Norberg |
| Series | Modern European Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 295 |
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