{"product_id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation","title":"The World as Will and Representation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1818, with a title page dated 1819, Arthur Schopenhauer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe World as Will and Representation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents one of the most distinctive and unsettling philosophical systems of the nineteenth century. Taking Immanuel Kant’s distinction between appearances and things as they are in themselves as his starting point, Schopenhauer argues that the world we experience is representation, while its deeper reality is an irrational, restless force he calls the Will. Across four interconnected books, he explores how this ceaseless striving shapes desire, suffering and human existence, before turning to art, compassion and ascetic renunciation as possible ways of escaping its grip.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInitially overlooked, the work became foundational to Schopenhauer’s reputation and exerted a lasting influence on Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Sigmund Freud and later thinkers concerned with the unconscious and the limits of reason. Its combination of rigorous argument, vivid metaphor and profound pessimism makes it both a demanding philosophical treatise and an unusually personal meditation on what it means to be alive. At its heart lies a troubling question: whether understanding the forces that govern us can offer any freedom from them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Arthur Schopenhauer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe World as Will and Representation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe World as Will and Representation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Schopenhauer’s fullest statement of his entire philosophy.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Sandra Shapshay, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64051570934090,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/the-world-as-will-and-representation","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}