Tag: Arthur Schopenhauer

Against Schopenhauer: Desire, Difference, Representation, History, and the Failure of Metaphysical Sovereignty

Arthur Schopenhauer’s metaphysics is built around one enormous compression. Beneath the plurality of appearances, beneath individual desire, bodily action, organic striving, conflict, reproduction, suffering, and nature itself, he places a single metaphysical principle: Will. The attraction of the system is obvious enough. A world that looks heterogeneous and difficult is gathered beneath one invariant. Hunger, […]