Some of Schopenhauer's works are available on this website in full text by clicking on the links below:
A. Works by Schopenhauer
• 1813: Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason).
• 1816: Über das Sehn und die Farben (On Vision and Colors).
• 1819 [1818]: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) [first edition, one volume].
• 1836: Über den Willen in der Natur (On the Will in Nature).
• 1839: “Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens” (“On Freedom of the Human Will”).
• 1840: “Über die Grundlage der Moral” (“On the Basis of Morality”).
• 1841 [1840]: Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik (The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics) [joint publication of the 1839 and 1840 essays in book form].
• 1844: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) [second edition, two volumes].
• 1847: Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde (On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason) [second edition, revised].
• 1851: Parerga und Paralipomena (Parerga and Paralipomena - click here for vol. I of the English translation by E. Payne. Click here for vol. II of the English translation by E. Payne). Click here for Part I in German. Click here for Part II in German. Click here for a dual language version (German and English) of "Ueber die Weiber" / "On women", Chapter XXVII of Parerga und Paralipomena.
• 1859: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) [third edition, two volumes]. Click here for another version in German (Erster Band). Click here for another version in German (Zweiter Band).
B. English Translations of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
• 1883: The World as Will and Idea, 3 Vols., translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
• 1958: The World as Will and Representation, Vols. I and II, translated by E. F. J. Payne, New York: Dover Publications (1969). Click here for volume I.
• 2007: The World as Will and Presentation, Vol. I, translated by Richard Aquila in collaboration with David Carus, New York: Longman.
• 2010: The World as Will and Presentation, Vol. I, translated by David Carus and Richard Aquila, New York: Longman.
• 2010: The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I, translated by Judith Norman, Alistair Welchman, and Christopher Janaway, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
C. Works About Schopenhauer
• Atwell, J., 1990, Schopenhauer: The Human Character, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
• –––, 1995, Schopenhauer on the Character of the World, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Barua, A., M. Gerhard, and M. Kossler (eds.), 2013, Understanding Schopenhauer Through the Prism of Indian Culture, Berlin: deGruyter.
• Berger, D.L., 2004, The Veil of Maya: Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought, Binghamton, New York: Global Academic Publishing.
• Brener, M., 2014, Schopenhauer and Wagner: A Closer Look, Bloomington, Xlibris.
• Cartwright, D., 2005, Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, Lanham, Maryland, Toronto, Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
• Copleston, F., 1975 [1946], Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism, London: Barnes and Noble.
• Farrelly, D. (ed. and trans.), 2015, Arthur Schopenhauer: New Material by Him and about Him by Dr. David Asher, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Fox, M. (ed.), 1980, Schopenhauer: His Philosophical Achievement, Brighton: Harvester Press.
• Gardiner, P., 1967, Schopenhauer, Middlesex: Penguin Books.
• Grimwood, Thomas, "The Limits of Misogyny: Schopenhauer, "On Women"", Kritike, vol. II, nr. 2, 2008, 131.
• Hamlyn, D. W., 1980, Schopenhauer, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
• Head, J., and D. Vanden Auweele, 2017, Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root, New York and London: Routledge
• Hübscher, A., 1989, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer in its Intellectual Context: Thinker Against the Tide, trans. Joachim T. Baer and David E. Humphrey, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
• Jacquette, D. (ed.),1996, Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .
• Jacquette, D., 2005, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Chesham, UK: Acumen.
• Janaway, C., 1994, Schopenhauer, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• –––, 1989, Self and World in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Janaway, C. (ed.), 1998, Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• –––, 1999, The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Jordan, N., 2010, Schopenhauer’s Ethics of Patience: Virtue, Salvation and Value, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
• Lauxtermann, P.F.H., 2000, Schopenhauer’s Broken World View: Colours and Ethics Between Kant and Goethe, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Magee, B., 1983, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Mannion, G., 2003, Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality: The Humble Path to Ethics, Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
• Marcin, R.B., 2006, In Search of Schopenhauer’s Cat: Arthur Schopenhauer’s Quantum-mystical Theory of Justice, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
• Neeley, S.G., 2004, Schopenhauer: A Consistent Reading, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
• Neil, A. and Janaway, C. (eds.) 2009, Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Value, London: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Peters, M., 2009, Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering: A Comparative Analysis, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ryan, C., 2010, Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Religion: The Death of God and the Oriental Renaissance, Leuven: Peeters.
• Schulz, O., 2014, Schopenhauer’s Critique of Hope, Norderstedt: Books on Demand.
• Simmel, G., 1986 [1907], Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, trans. Helmut Loiskandl, Deena Weinstein, and Michael Weinstein, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
• Tsanoff, R.A., 1911, Schopenhauer’s Criticism of Kant’s Theory of Experience, New York: Longmans, Green.
• Vasalou, S., 2016, Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Vandenabeele, B., 2015, The Sublime in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• von der Luft, E. (ed.), 1988, Schopenhauer: New Essays in Honor of His 200th Birthday, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
• White, F.C., 1992, On Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, Leiden: E.J. Brill.
• White, F.C. (ed.), 1997, Schopenhauer’s Early Fourfold Root: Translation and Commentary, Aldershot: Avebury, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Wicks, R., 2008, Schopenhauer, Oxford: Blackwell.
• –––, 2011, Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation: A Reader’s Guide, London: Continuum.
• Young, J., 1987, Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhof.
• –––, 2005, Schopenhauer, London & New York: Routledge.
D. Biographies of Schopenhauer (published in English)
• Bridgewater, P., 1988, Arthur Schopenhauer’s English Schooling, London and New York: Routledge.
• Cartwright, D., 2010, Schopenhauer: A Biography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• McGill, V. J, 1931, Schopenhauer: Pessimist and Pagan, New York: Haskell House Publishers (1971).
• Safranski, R., 1989, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy, trans. Ewald Osers, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
• Wallace, W., 1890, Life of Arthur Schopenhauer, London: Walter Scott.
• Zimmern, H., 1876, Arthur Schopenhauer: His Life and Philosophy, London: Longmans Green & Co.
