{"product_id":"2026200015644-secondhand-essays-and-aphorisms","title":"Essays And Aphorisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an age of relentless optimism and shallow self-congratulation, Arthur Schopenhauer's Essays and Aphorisms arrives as a bracingly honest counterweight — a collection of incisive observations on human nature, suffering, happiness, and the folly of existence drawn from his monumental masterwork, Parerga and Paralipomena. Selected and translated by R.J. Hollingdale for Penguin Classics, this volume presents Schopenhauer at his most accessible and razor-sharp, covering themes that range from the misery of existence and the nature of women to the consolations of art and the wisdom found in solitude.\n\nSchopenhauer writes with a clarity and wit that is as unsettling as it is illuminating, his aphoristic style cutting through pretension with surgical precision. His pessimistic worldview — rooted in the belief that human existence is driven by blind, insatiable will — shaped an extraordinary lineage of thinkers and artists, from Nietzsche and Freud to Tolstoy and Thomas Hardy. For those who dare to look unflinchingly at the human condition, this collection remains as provocative and revelatory today as it was in the nineteenth century — a philosophical mirror that reflects truths we are seldom brave enough to confront.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203260489947,"sku":"2026200015644-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/eb0974b7-de04-4af9-b5fd-10cb3b24f7eb.png?v=1788146702","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015644-secondhand-essays-and-aphorisms","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}