The Philosophy of Disenchantment |
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| Author:
| Saltus, Edgar Evertson |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4948-3915-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.99 |
Book Description:
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The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature, Volume 6: HOWEVER we may disagree with that view of life which pronounces it an affliction, a tragedy in the language of a farce, no one can deny the force of Saltus' writing and the dark certainty of his deductions. From the first man to the present hour, life has presented a problem which neither hope, philosophy nor religion has been able to answer. Sage and poet nave...
More DescriptionFrom an advertisement in The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature, Volume 6:
HOWEVER we may disagree with that view of life which pronounces it an affliction, a tragedy in the language of a farce, no one can deny the force of Saltus' writing and the dark certainty of his deductions. From the first man to the present hour, life has presented a problem which neither hope, philosophy nor religion has been able to answer. Sage and poet nave pronounced it a vanity and a sham, a dark shifting curtain painted with fantastic shapes, a lane of light with night on either hand. In the Philosophy of Disenchantment, Saltus has given voice to that dumb cry and question which has always and must forever rise in every human heart- "I suffer, and is this all?"
...and a review:
"MR. SALTUS is a scientific pessimist, as witty, as bitter, as satirical, as interesting and as insolent to humanity in general as are his great teachers, Scho-penhauer and Von Hartmann." -Worcester Spy.