![]() ![]() Here is an unexpected Schopenhauer, a world away from the pessimistic, bad-tempered cliché. »Never have we experienced the presumed pessimist in this light. A flawless good read for the initiated.« A wonderfully intelligent, exciting, masterfully composed book, one that is a sensual delight to read. »Poschenrieder’s sensitive and lively imagination draws us into a torrent of poetry and truth, a whirlpool of quotes, allusions, and events that create a panoramic view of the time with a twist of the grotesque. »The charm of this book lies in the author’s ability to be inspired by Schopenhauer’s real life and to make the bare facts pulsate with life – he makes the reader curious to re-discover one of the great minds of German philosophy. »Poschenrieder has succeeded in breathing life into a potentially unwieldy subject.« Whosoever is ready to cast aside clichés of Schopenhauer the philosopher as misogynist and pessimist, will glean much pleasure from this intelligent book.« ✺s well as simply a splendid portrait of an exciting epoch, this novel delivers a refined love story replete with secret agents, the Venetian Carnival, and a dog. »one of the smartest books this spring« … and here’s a first batch of press reviews: ![]() ✼hristoph Poschenrieder tells lively and poignant – his language is beautifully chosen.« And all are presented as strong individual characters.« »Schopenhauer, Lord Byron, Goethe, Brockhaus, Metternich – truely honorable names appear in this book. A gripping novel with an insight into the 19. century« »I never thought that this topic could fascinate me so much. »one of the literary highlights this year« The first votes are in: Booksellers‹ praise for ✽ie Welt ist im Kopf« For Teresa shows the young philosopher that he still needs to rethink one point in his world view: his idea of love. Even before he arrives he attracts the attention of Metternich’s secret police: Goethe’s note recommending him to Lord Byron – a man with a wide reputation as a poet and as a figure of scandal – casts suspicion on Schopenhauer and makes him unwelcome in Austrian-occupied Veneto.īut once he gets to Venice, Schopenhauer refuses to be driven out – and certainly not after he meets Teresa. Lord Byron of Rochdale, born 1788, died 1824.Īnd so Schopenhauer leaves Dresden for Italy in the late summer of 1818 without his book in his suitcase – he is still a nobody. ![]()
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