David Bather Woods

Arthur Schopenhauer: by David Bather Woods - Spectrum Culture A broad and deep exploration formidable philosopher's preoccupations with love, loneliness, morality, politics, gender, sexuality, death, suicide, fame and madness.

"Bather Woods surveys with eclectic range and idiosyncratic depth his implacable and irascible subject’s preoccupations with love, loneliness, morality, politics, gender, sexuality, death, suicide, fame and madness."

New book review in @spectrumculture.bsky.social

Thank you! Hope you enjoy!

Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist. By David Bather Woods. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2025. xvi + 294pp. $30.00ISBN: 978‐0‐226‐82976‐0 (... Click on the article title to read more.

Generous and insightful book review in Ratio by Richard Elliott (Reading/Birkbeck)

TODAY: On the 238th anniversary of the great grouch, tune in for a spirit-lifting with David Bather Woods from the University of Warwick, author of "Arthur #Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist" – 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & www.kalw.org/show/philoso....

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My article in Mind now has an issue number
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For his 238th birthday, I answer the question: Where should I start with Schopenhauer?
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Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist? David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer To celebrate Arthur Schopenhauer's 238th birthday, David Bather Woods, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, joins host Alaka Halder to discuss his new book, Arthur Schopenha...

What will you be doing on Schopenhauer’s 238th birthday? If you want to spend it with me and other Schopenhaurians, you can!

Join me and @ahalder.bsky.social for an @interintellect.bsky.social salon on Schopenhauer’s life and thought. Tickets are free at the link below.

Substack post incoming tomorrow to mark Christmas for post-Kantian pessimists

Coming up: On the 238th anniversary of the great curmudgeon, revisit our conversation with @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social from the University of Warwick, author of "Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist."

🎧 Sunday at 11 am on KALW in San Francisco & kalw.org.

Schopenhauer: Living Your Worst Life - Philosophy Talk Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is considered one of the great European philosophers of the nineteenth century. His most famous work, The World as Will and Representation, presents a pessimistic view ...

More at philosophytalk.org/shows/schope... #PhilSky #philosophy #pessimism

Schopenhauer—Living Your Worst Life: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

This Sunday marks the 238th anniversary Arthur #Schopenhauer, so we'll be rebroadcasting our recent episode with @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social. Ahead of the program we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to find the silver lining in Schopenhauer’s dismal worldview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG-k...

Ellie Robson (@philosophellie.bsky.social) and I edited a new virtual special issue of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 'Ten Women Presidents of the Aristotelian Society'

10 papers from the first 10 women to be president of the AS are all available open access here:

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Thank you again for reading my book! It’s very meaningful to me because I know you’re an avid reader and have great taste in books and philosophy

I read this book because I adore @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social’s
work & I loved this book because of his writing & what he’s done here. I now see more kindness in #Schopenhauer & his ideas than I thought possible. Congrats @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#Philsky #booksky

Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on The Phenomenology of...

‘Alexandre Kojève’s colleagues were aware that he had another life outside the ministry: on Sundays he became a “Hegelian philosopher”, devouring the Gesammelte Werke – so it was said – with the same appetite that others brought to the latest adventures of Tintin.’

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today we begin a new series asking why contemporary political philosophy struggles to make sense of the deepest problems of politics and exploring how the history of ideas might help. Political theorist Paul Sagar suggests we start with Aristotle.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Some very exciting new hardbacks and paperbacκs out later this year in @anthempress.bsky.social Studies in #Wittgenstein!

Get 25% off all titles old and new by pre-ordering with code WPS25:

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Spotted in Powell’s City of Books, Portland 👀

Thanks for reading it! I felt that the basics of WWR were already covered in other books. Plus, the idea is that each topic can be connected to the life. So I drew in things in WWR that shine a light on Schop - like the stuff on suicide, death, madness, punishment, sex and love.

Spotted in Powell’s City of Books, Portland 👀

How have ideas of relational equality developed in the past 100 years? ⚖️

Don't miss this forthcoming #London #Lecture by TRIP President @jowolff.bsky.social, Social Equality: Then and Now.

🎟️ Get tickets here: buff.ly/WQ4gFXS

#politicalphilosophy #socialequality #philosophy

'A crucial innovation lay in the invention of ‘timelines’ (...) In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably the world’s first modern timeline.'

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Ah take me back

Is there such a thing as a reverse writers retreat, where I don’t go away but everybody else does?

Existential Pessimism and Aesthetic Experience: Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Life's Value I examine how three major 19th-century philosophers – Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche – confronted the problem of pessimism: the worry that life might not be worth living. I demonstrate how all thre...

haha! That’d be a real battle. Schop and Mill are maybe more aligned - Joshua Fox has worked on the topic knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3333

Schopenhauer and Mill are neck and neck! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist? David Bather Woods on Schopenhauer To celebrate Arthur Schopenhauer's 238th birthday, David Bather Woods, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, joins host Alaka Halder to discuss his new book, Arthur Schopenha...

What will you be doing on Schopenhauer’s 238th birthday? If you want to spend it with me and other Schopenhaurians, you can!

Join me and @ahalder.bsky.social for an @interintellect.bsky.social salon on Schopenhauer’s life and thought. Tickets are free at the link below.

Als je de mooie biografie van @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social gelezen hebt ga je dit ook lezen, in het Duits nog wel 🙈

Schopenhauer was de enige inzending op de prijsvraag naar de grondslag van de moraal en kreeg er GEEN prijs voor. Dat liet hij natuurlijk niet over zijn kant gaan. Ben benieuwd.

Self-help with Arthur Schopenhauer - George Hunka A review of a new biography of Schopenhauer by David Bather Woods.

A new biography of Arthur Schopenhauer from @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social and the University of Chicago Press: "He has produced a swiftly and gracefully readable book about Schopenhauer which doesn’t stint on explication."

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