Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately, didn’t have much to offer us in his consolations about death, but, more importantly, he succeeded in helping us believe that life was worth living, even ...

"The Schopenhauer Cure" is really two books. The first, a biography of heavyweight German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), is woven into the second, a fictional account of group therapy.

THE name of Schopenhauer is better known to most general readers in our day than is that of any other modern Continental metaphysician since Kant. The reputed heretic has the reward of his dangerous ...

The first person we meet in Irvin Yalom’s novel “The Schopenhauer Cure” is a 65-year-old San Francisco psychiatrist in seemingly good health who is shocked to learn that he has a fatal illness. As a ...

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