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Essays of Schopenhauer

by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

14 chapters, about 63,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PRELIMINARY. 1,400 words
2. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE. 5,300 words
3. ON AUTHORSHIP AND STYLE. 7,700 words
4. ON NOISE. 3,600 words
5. ON READING AND BOOKS. 2,700 words
6. THE EMPTINESS OF EXISTENCE. 2,600 words
7. ON WOMEN. 3,600 words
8. THINKING FOR ONESELF. 2,200 words
9. THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF OUR TRUE BEING BY DEATH. 1,300 words
10. A DIALOGUE. 13,400 words
11. PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 3,600 words
12. METAPHYSICS OF LOVE. 11,600 words
13. PHYSIOGNOMY. 3,000 words
14. ON SUICIDE. 1,300 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Boredom
• Illusion
• Meditation
• Style (visual arts)
• Suicide
• Suicide (Durkheim book)

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