Arthur Schopenhauer

She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant. Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...

At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...

At eighteen, in 1908 (which makes her the same age as her author), she experiences initial social success in Vienna, but her reading of dubious texts (not only Schiller 's Maria Stuart but...

The work was, according to her biographer, a statement of the scientific rationalist's ethical position. Several of her assertions challenge traditional Christian ideology. For example she notes that there is no prospect of the...

The Story of Clarice, by contrast, is a transparently simple love-story which incorporates a thread of literary commentary. Clarice is the daughter of a scholar who writes of historical controversy, books that all might...

CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she...

Her effort to put her thoughts on art, morality, and reality into a unified and coherent form is a journey of the intellect that ranges through investigations of the powers of art, the mind, and...

The essay celebrates the beauty of noise, while observing how some people detest it. She mentions Schopenhauer , the grim philosopher, who hated women, who hated noises also—did not merely pretend to hate them as...