Schopenhauer, p. 26
«If a cat is stroked it purrs...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 353 / chap. 4, «What a Man
Represents.»
«the morning sun of my fame...”:
Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 516 /
“ ,” В§ 36
«She works all day at my place...”:
Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.
«At the end of his life, no man...”: Schopenhauer,World as
Will, vol. 1, p. 324 / В§ 59.
«A carpenter does not come up to me...”: Pierre
Hadot,Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises
from Socrates to Foucault, ed. Arnold Davidson, trans.
Michael Chase (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).
«In the first place a man...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 / В§ 144
«I can bear the thought...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p. 393, «Senilia,” В§ 102.
«The life of our bodies...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,
vol. 1, p. 311 / В§ 57.
«What a difference there is...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 288 / В§ 147.
Schopenhauer`s final thoughts on death...:
Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.
«It is absurd to consider nonexistence...”:
Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 467 / chap. 41, «On
Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Inner
Nature.»
«We should welcome it...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 322 / В§ 172a.
«If we knocked on the graves...”: Schopenhauer,World as
Will, vol. 2, p. 465 / chap. 41, «On Death and Its Relation
to the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature.»
The dialogue between two Hellenic philosophers:
Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 279 /
В§ 141
«When you say I, I, I...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 281 / В§ 141
«I have always hoped to die easily...”:
Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /
“ ,” В§ 38
«I now stand weary at the end of the road...”:
Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 658 /
«Finale.»
«I am deeply glad to see...”: Magee,Philosophy of
Schopenhauer, p. 25.
«This man who lived among us a lifetime...”: Karl
Pisa,Schopenhauer (Berlin: Paul Neff Verlag, 1977), p. 386
«Mankind has learned...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p.328, «Spicegia,” В§ 122.
Acknowledgments
This book has had a long gestation and I am indebted to
many who helped along the way. To editors who assisted
me in this odd amalgam of fiction, psychobiography and
psychotherapy pedagogy: Marjorie Braman (a tower of
support and guidance at HarperCollins), Kent Carroll, and
my extraordinary in–house editors—my son, Ben, and my
wife, Marilyn. To many friends and colleagues who read
parts or all of the manuscript and offered suggestions: Van
and Margaret Harvey, Walter Sokel, Ruthellen Josselson,
Carolyn Zaroff, Murray Bilmes, Julius Kaplan, Scott
Wood, Herb Kotz, Roger Walsh, Saul Spiro, Jean Rose,
Helen Blau, David Spiegel. To my support group of fellow
therapists who, throughout this project, offered unwavering
friendship and sustenance. To my amazing and
multitalented agent, Sandy Dijkstra, who among other
contributions suggested the title (as she did for my
preceding book,The Gift of Therapy ). To my research
assistant, Geri Doran.
Much of the Schopenhauer correspondence that
exists either remains untranslated or has been clumsily
rendered into English. I am indebted to my German
research assistants, Markus Buergin and Felix Reuter, for
their translation services and their prodigious library
research. Walter Sokel offered exceptional intellectual
guidance and helped translate many of the Schopenhauer
epigrams preceding each chapter into English that more
reflects Schopenhauer`s powerful and lucid prose.
In this work, as in all others, my wife, Marilyn,
served as a pillar of support and love.
Many fine books guided me in my writing. By far, I
am most heavily indebted to Rudiger Safranski`s
magnificent biography,Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of
Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1989) and grateful
to him for his generous consultation in our long
conversation in a Berlin cafГ©. The idea of bibliotherapy—
curing oneself through reading the entire corpus of
philosophy—comes from Bryan Magee`s excellent
book,Confessions of a Philosopher (New York: Modern
Library, 1999). Other works that informed me were Bryan
Magee`sThe Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1983; revised 1997; John E.
Atwell`sSchopenhauer: The Human Character
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990); Christopher
