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The World as Will and Idea

By Arthur Schopenhauer

First written 1819; enlarged 1844

About this book

The first complete English translation of Schopenhauer’s main work: the world as representation and as will, the arts as release from willing, and the ethics of compassion and of the denial of the will, with references to Indian and Buddhist thought.

The edition

Title
The World as Will and Idea
Translated by
R. B. Haldane, J. Kemp
Publisher
Trübner, London
Year
1883
Edition
Three volumes, 1883–1886

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