ABSTRACT
Schopenhauer’s fame and reputation as a philosopher with influence worldwide (from Europe to South America) and in many fields (from music through literature to the arts) dates from the second half of the nineteenth century. The historiography of philosophy, too, has tended to locate Schopenhauer in that era, treating him as an important influence on Nietzsche and typically pairing the two as radical renewers of philosophical thought after Kant and Hegel and as advocates of an anti-intellectualist attitude focused on life and existence with lasting repercussion in twentieth-century thought, from the philosophy of life ( Lebensphilosophie ) to existentialism. 1 Viewed in that context, Schopenhauer appeared as an irrationalist in deep opposition to previous philosophy and as the originator of an entirely novel manner of looking at self and world.
