Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1: Short Philosophical Essays (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer)

Livro fundamental para o entendimento do pensamento humano. Referëncia para o entendimento da trajetória humana.

The first essay alone ("Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real") makes the book worth your purchase!

翻訳されている多数の小編の面白さを期待して読むと、ちょっと戸惑うくらい、興味をひかないエッセイが多い。例えば、ドイツ語の文法に関する論考だとか、当時の慣習を知らなければまったく意味の分からない話だとか 私たちが多少でも面白がれる作品は、選別されたうえですでに日本語訳がある。それで十分ということが、公平な評価かな よほど彼にほれ込んだ人ではない限り、安価版の抄訳でよいと思う

A fantastic accompaniment to his main book "The world and will as Idea", although his essay on university philosophy drags on and is filled with bitterness, there is a great deal of insight that can be gained by anyone reading this book. If only he received ample recognition during his life, then perhaps he would not have wasted so many words on the German Idealist school!

This is a review about the pyhsical hardback quality only. It is a print on demand production, white (i.e. not off white or cream. Looks cold and unpleasant to read from at length) with poor binding. Sometimes this can be forgiven, but not for a £90 and for such an important book/series. I believe earlier books published in the series (Cambridge Schopenhauer) were produced to a better standard (or maybe even earlier copies of this book), but somehow it wasn't profitable to print books of good quality at this this price. It should be noted the paperback is also print on demand, infact it seems to be the exact same paper/printing used in the hardback (same binding in effect also, glued perfect bound) but without boards glued to it and is a realistic price. The text printing in both, it should be said, is of a better standard than other print on demand books I've seen but still not as good as traditional books. In my opinion print on demand books should be clearly marked as such, as they're almost always an inferior in production quality.