«He lived a long life doing profession of pessimism»

Roberta Visone

«He lived a long life doing profession of pessimism»: Michelstaedter vs Schopenhauer

Authors

Roberta Visone

University of Naples Federico II

Keywords:

Michelstaedter, Schopenhauer, persuasion, rhetoric, pessimism

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 40

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22351

Abstract: This paper examines the meaning of Carlo Michelstaedter’s judgement on Arthur Schopenhauer, according to which Schopenhauer does not fully accept the consequences of his own system of thought but only makes a «profession of pessimism», in the light of Michelstaedter’s categories of «Persuasion» and «Rhetoric».

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Author Biography

Roberta Visone, University of Naples Federico II

She received her PhD in Philosophical Sciences from University of Naples “Federico II”. She has been post-doctoral research fellow in philosophy at University of Naples “Federico II” and at CNR, Institute for the history of philosophical and scientific thought in modern age (ISPF) based in Naples, with which is currently collaborating. She is author of many publications on the thought of Carlo Michelstaedter and Herbert Spencer (among which the book on Spencer’s thought Prima dell’evoluzione. Le radici politiche della filosofia di Spencer e la Social Statics del 1850, Firenze, Le Cariti).