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489 Schopenhauer (aka The Tunnel and The Hole)

The History of Literature

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The Six Reasons for Schopenhauer's Success

Hollendale: Schopenhauer's ideas are simple and accessible. Only Nietzsche among the German philosophers employs less jargon, according to Hollendale. He doesn't trace through an entire history of ideas and their development, he says. "He deals with the world as it is today," writes Hollendale.

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