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PARERGA AND PARALIPOMENA: SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

[b]SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY[/b]

 

 

Works of Schopenhauer

 

German Editions:

 

Schopenhauers samtliche Werke. Ed. Paul Deussen. 13 vols. Munich: R. Piper, 1911-42.

 

Schopenhauers samtliche Werke. Ed. Arthur Hubscher. 7 vols. Wiesbaden: F. A. Brockhaus, 1946-50. The best edition for scholars and students.

 

Schopenhauers handschriftlicher Nachlass. Ed. Arthur Hubscher. 5 vols. Frankfurt am Main: Waldemar Kramer, 1966-. (vols. 1, 2, 3, and 5 already published.)

 

Translations:

 

On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Trans. E. F. J. Payne. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co., 1974.

 

On the Will in Nature. Trans. Madame K. Hillebrand. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1897. Ably translated but out of print.

 

The World as Will and Representation. Trans. E. F. J. Payne. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1966.

 

On the Freedom of the Will. Trans. Konstantin Kolenda. New York: Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.

 

On the Basis of Morality. Trans. E. F. J. Payne. New York: Library of Liberal Arts, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

 

The Pessimist's Handbook: A Collection of Popular Essays. Trans. T. Bailey Saunders. Ed. Hazel Barnes. Bison Books. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1964.

 

Works on Schopenhauer

 

Beer, Margrieta. Schopenhauer. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1914. Copleston, Frederick, S. J., Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism. London: Burns, Oates, and Washbourne, 1947.

 

Deussen, Paul. Elements of Metaphysics. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894.

 

Doring, W. O. Schopenhauer. Hamburg: Hansischer Gildenverlag, 1947·

 

Gardiner, Patrick. Schopenhauer. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963. An excellent introduction.

 

Hubscher, Arthur. Arthur Schopenhauer: Mensch und Philosoph in seinen Brefen. Wiesbaden: F. A. Brockhaus, 1960.

 

-- Schopenhauer: Biographie eines Weltbildes. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1967.

 

-- Schopenhauer-Bildnisse: Eine Ikonographie. Frankfurt am Main: Waldemar Kramer, 1968. Contains over sixty reproductions of portraits.

 

Pfeiffer, K. Arthur Schopenhauer: Personlichkeit und Werk. Leipzig: A. Kroner, 1925.

 

Richter, Peyton E. Perspectives in Aesthetics: Plato to Camus. New York: The Odyssey Press, Inc., 1967. A useful work of reference.

 

Saltus, Edgar E. The Philosophy of Disenchantment. New York: Belford Co., 1885 (New York: A.M.S. Press, Inc.).

 

Schmidt, K. O. Das Erwachen aus dem Lebens-Traum. Pfullingen: Baum Verlag, 1957.

 

Taylor, Richard. The Will to Live. New York: Anchor Books, 1962. A fine introduction.

 

Wagner, G. F. Schopenhauer-Register. Stuttgart: Fr. Frommann, 1960. A splendid concordance of Schopenhauer's works. Essential to the student.

 

Whittaker, Thomas. Schopenhauer. London: Constable, 1920.

 

Zimmern, Helen. Arthur Schopenhauer: His Life and His Philosophy. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1876.

 

Zint, Hans. Schopenhauer als Erlebnis. Munich: E. Reinhardt, 1954.

 

Jahrbucher der Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft (first Yearbook published in 1912). An international journal edited since 1937 by Dr. Arthur Hubscher, President of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

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