Philosopher

Olga Plümacher

Overview

Olga Marie Pauline Plümacher (née Hünerwadel; 27 May 1839 – c. 15 June 1895), who wrote under the name O. Plümacher, was a Russian-born Swiss-American philosopher. She wrote on the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann, and published three books that contributed to the pessimism controversy in Germany. Her book Der Pessimismus in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ("Pessimism in the Past and Present") was read and annotated by Friedrich Nietzsche and Samuel Beckett.

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Philosophers who discussed Olga Plümacher

• Arthur Schopenhauer

Ideas Olga Plümacher discusses

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Princeton University Press
• Frederick C. Beiser
• Samuel Beckett
• Mind (journal)
• Zurich
• Oxford University Press
• Eduard von Hartmann
• Napoleon
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Cambridge University Press
• British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Place in the tradition

Part of Philosophical pessimism.

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