Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream

Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation is one of the central texts in the history of Western philosophy. It is one of the last monuments to the pro

Presents a variety of scholarship on Schopenhauer's monumental text, placing it among the canonical works of nineteenth-century philosophy.

This edition originally published by Berghahn Books. Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne’s definitive translation, based on