#1175 Jakob Norberg: Schopenhauer's Politics

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Jakob Norberg. He's professor of German studies at Duke University, and today we're going to talk about his latest book, Schopenhauer's Politics. So Dr.

Norberg, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Well, thank you for the invitation. So, I mean, as I was telling you off record, uh, I quite like Schopenhauer and his philosophy, I mean, his pessimism, his metaphysics, the will and the world as a representation, and his aesthetics and ethics and so on, but I never thought about him as a political philosopher as a or as a potential political philosopher.

So uh why would someone like Schopenhauer with the kind of philosophy that we tend to associate with him write about politics? Well, uh I think uh a lot of people would agree with you. Uh most people claim that Schoponaha has little to say about politics. As you mentioned, he is interested in what the world consists of, how we come to know anything about the world, how we should behave, and the role of art. So metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and he doesn't say much about politics.

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