Correspondencia escogida (1799-1860)

This volume brings together a wide selection of the letters of Arthur Schopenhauer and some of his numerous correspondents, including his mother Johanna and his sister Adele, Goethe, or the publishers of the Brockhaus house. They are joined by friends, admirers and disciples, as well as his only love, showgirl Caroline Medon. In total, nearly three hundred letters, many of them unpublished in the Spanish language, ranging from childhood to the last days of Schopenhauer's life, and which document a good part of his life and intellectual career: from the awakening of his interest in philosophy to the development of his capital work, from the years of illusion and disappointment to those of greatest exaltation and recognition. A fundamental document not only to put Schopenhauer's work in perspective, but also to bring us closer to the biography of a thinker who devoted his days to knowledge and creation.