Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Janaway

Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 in Danzig, and died in Frankfurt
am Main in 1860. There are a number of photographs taken during the
last decade of his life, from which we derive our most immediate sense
of the man. He looks unconventional and grimly determined, but the
sparkle in his eye is that of someone vigilant, incisive, and capable of
mischief – not altogether different from the persona which emerges
from his writings.