A Very Short Introduction to Schopenhauer
Channel: niriop
Date: 2010-08-30

Taken from Christopher Janaway's recording at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_vote_16to20.shtml

Schopenhauer was Alan Watts without his prozac, a man of contradictory ingenuity; a progressive freethinker who was also a conservative curmudgeon; a spiritual man who took from Eastern thought while admitting to the bleak pointless nature of the universe. He was a postscript to the Enlightenment, the man who made the young Nietzsche and gave inspiration to Wittgenstein and Mann, and deserves far more recognition and respect than he currently receives.