Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I)
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
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- ~200.000 Wörter · 962 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAArthur Schopenhauer. (n.d.). The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3
- MLAArthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3.
- ChicagoArthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (I)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3.
Nachweis der wiedergegebenen Ausgabe. SigPhi ist die digitale Reproduktion. Jahr, Verlag und Übersetzer werden angegeben, soweit bekannt; „n.d.“ bedeutet unbekanntes Jahr.
Wovon es handelt
Der erste Band von Schopenhauers Hauptwerk: die Welt als Vorstellung und die Welt als Wille, in vier Büchern, die von der Erkenntnis zur Kunst und zur Verneinung des Willens führen.
Kontext und Geschichte
Schopenhauer veröffentlichte das Buch 1818, und fünfundzwanzig Jahre lang las es fast niemand; 1844 legte er eine zweite Auflage mit einem Ergänzungsband vor, der so lang ist wie der erste. Diese englische Übersetzung verteilt das Ganze auf drei Bände. Er selbst mahnte in der Vorrede, das Buch müsse zweimal gelesen werden, weil der Anfang erst vom Ende her verständlich sei; das ist wörtlich gemeint, keine Redensart.
Redaktioneller Kontext, keine zitierfähige Quelle: anders als die Passagen des Werks lassen sich diese Angaben nicht am Korpus überprüfen.
As I have absolutely nothing to advance against these reproaches, I only hope for some small thanks from such readers for having warned them in time, so that they may not lose an hour over a book which it would be useless to read without complying with the demands that have been made, and which should therefore be left alone, particularly as apart from this we might wager a great deal that it can say nothing to them, but rather that it will always be only _pancorum hominum_, and must therefore quietly and modestly wait for the few whose unusual mode of thought may find it enjoyable. For apart from the difficulties and the effort which it requires from the reader, what cultured man of this age, whose knowledge has almost reached the august point at which the paradoxical and the false are all one to it, could bear to meet thoughts almost on every page that directly contradict that which he has yet himself established once for all as true and undeniable? And then, how disagreeably disappointed will many a one be if he finds no mention here of what he believes it is precisely here he ought to look for, because his method of speculation agrees with that of a great living philosopher,(1) who has certainly written pathetic books, and who only has the trifling weakness that he takes all he learned and approved before his fifteenth year for inborn ideas of the human mind. Who could stand all this? Therefore my advice is simply to lay down the book. But I fear I shall not escape even thus. The reader who has got as far as the preface and been stopped by it, has bought the book for cash, and asks how he is to be indemnified. My last refuge is now to remind him that he knows how to make use of a book in several ways, without exactly reading it. It may fill a gap in his library as well as many another, where, neatly bound, it will certainly look well. Or he can lay it on the toilet-table or the tea-table of some learned lady friend.…