This is a splendid book. Norberg brings Schopenhauer to life as an eclectic modern political thinker who was focused above all on deflating the grand ideologies of nationalism and socialism, and the lessening of cruelty in everyday life.
Schopenhauer’s Politics is utterly essential reading for anyone interested in Schopenhauer’s significance as a political thinker. It is the first book fully to do justice to the manifold political dimensions of Schopenhauer’s life and thought, which have been overlooked by scholars for far too long. Norberg’s trenchant analysis of Schopenhauer’s politics is presented with the highest degree of insight, clarity, and originality.