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  The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel (P.S.)

  by Irvin D. Yalom

  Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks out Philip Slate, a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer -- and is, himself, a philosophical... (more)
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  'the Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Art of Controversy

  by Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation. He responded to and expanded upon Immanuel Kant's philosophy concerning the way in which we experience the world. His critique of Kant, his creative solutions to the problems of human experience and his explication of the limits of human knowledge are among his most important achievements. His... (more)
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  Architects of the Culture of Death

  by Donald DeMarco, Benjamin Wiker

  The "Culture of Death" has become a popular phrase, and is much bandied about in academic circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains vague and remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death high definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed its roots by introducing its "architects." In a scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation of the mindsets of twenty-three influential thinkers,... (more)
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  Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

  by Arthur Schopenhauer

  Schopenhauer's Prize Essay is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. He distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F.J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together with a... (more)
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  Metafísica do Belo

  by Arthur Schopenhauer

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  Compreender Schopenhauer

  by Jean Lefranc