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Pregnant with Monsters

Terry Eagleton: Schopenhauer makes a stir, 4 December 2025

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist 
by David BatherWoods.
Chicago, 294 pp., £24, November, 978 0 226 82976 0Show More
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“... lack of complexity is also the reason he lends himself to popularising accounts like this one. David BatherWoods writes in a deliberately non-intimidating style as he takes the reader through the various stages of Schopenhauer’s uneventful life. He was born in Danzig in 1788 and visited London as a ...”

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