Second Passage Press / Edition 001
Schopenhauer on Desire, Solitude & Suffering
Desire → Solitude → Suffering
A practical book about the motives beneath ordinary life: wanting more, being seen, escaping other people, guarding attention and learning what solitude is for. Selected into one reading path and lightly modernized without softening Schopenhauer’s claims.
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Inside the edition
Clearer English. The same uncomfortable recognition.
The edition solves two problems: what to read first, and how to remove needless linguistic friction without domesticating the thought.
“Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, “What a Man Has,” page 8
Editorial method
Modernized, not sanitized.
Based on T. Bailey Saunders’s public-domain translation. Archaic wording and syntax are clarified while the argument, tone and unfashionable judgments remain intact. Every selection is identified and auditable.
- Format
- Hardcover
- Trim
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Extent
- 128 pages
- Production
- Print-on-demand hardcover; printed to order for each customer