Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione (I)
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~200.000 parole · 962 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAArthur Schopenhauer. (n.d.). The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione (I)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3
- MLAArthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione (I)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3.
- ChicagoArthur Schopenhauer. The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) [Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione (I)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/schopenhauer/the-world-as-will-and-idea-vol-1-of-3.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
Il primo volume dell'opera principale di Schopenhauer: il mondo come rappresentazione e il mondo come volontà, in quattro libri che vanno dalla conoscenza all'arte e alla negazione del volere.
Contesto e storia
Schopenhauer pubblicò il libro nel 1818 e per venticinque anni non lo lesse quasi nessuno; nel 1844 ne diede una seconda edizione con un secondo volume di supplementi lungo quanto il primo. Questa traduzione inglese distribuisce l'insieme in tre tomi. Egli stesso avvertiva nella prefazione che il libro va letto due volte, perché l'inizio si comprende solo a partire dalla fine; è un'esigenza letterale, non un modo di dire.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
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.…