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The LEGACY of SCHOPENHAUER
AN UNPARALLELED DEPTH OF INSIGHT INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION
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Perhaps the most extensive field in which Schopenhauer’s influence made itself felt was that of the novel. The supreme Russian novelist Telstoy and Turgenev; the great French writers Proust and Zola; perhaps the greatest of all German novelists, Thomas Mann; and in English the novelist Hardy and Conard; all acknowledged that their own books had been actively nourished by their reading of Schopenhauer. The philosopher is even mentioned by name in some of their novels, for instance in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877), and in Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ (1891). What may be claimed as the best all short story writers -- Maupassant, Chekhnov, Maugham, and Broges -- reveal similar influence. And this extraordinary effect of Schopenhauer’s on creative writers was to continue well into the 20th century. He is mentioned by name in more than one of Chekhov’s plays, and after Chekkov’s his influence is felt in the plays of Bernard Shaw, Pirandello, and Samuel Beckett. It brushed the wings of even the greatest of 20th century poets, Rilke, and T.S. Eliot.
There is no other philosopher, at least since Locke, of whom anything like this can be said. Not even Marx, whose effect on art and artists was very great, can count so many stars of such magnitude among those whose works he influenced. And of course the influence was felt by philosophers was Nietzsche, the outstanding philosopher of the 19th century after Schopenhauer’s death, said that it was the reading of Schopenhauer that had turned him into a philosopher. And in the first part of the 20th century Wittgenstein began his philosophizing from a starting point provided to him by Schopenhauer.
The reasons for his unique range of influence are many and complex, but perhaps chief among them are Schopenhauer’s combination of an unparalleled depth of insight into the human condition with a literary style of exceptional quality ~ Page 145
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