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Arthur Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher, whose The World as Will and Idea in 1818 expounded an atheistic and pessimistic world view: an irrational will is considered as the inner principle of the world, producing an ever-frustrated cycle of desire, of which the only escape is aesthetic contemplation, or absorption into nothingness.

This theory struck a responsive chord in the philosopher Nietzsche, the composer Wagner, the German novelist Thomas Mann, and the English writer Thomas Hardy.

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Date Added: 15 June '12


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