A review by the_weirdling
Studies In Pessimism: The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer by T. Bailey Saunders

5.0

A collection of essays with Schopenhauer at his misanthropic best. Always insightful, even if you don’t always agree with him. Every essay is worth reading over and over, with the possible exception of “On Women”. Smart fellow though he was, Schopenhauer missed that every thing he described as negative attributes of women is just as likely because they were oppressed by a patriarchal system leaving women no other avenues of being and existence. And not because that’s “just the way women are”. You can tell he’s never been married or had daughters, and that his mother was a constant source of strife in his life.