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Schopenhauer thinks music gives privileged insight into the structure of the will. But he describes will as an endless striving while praising music as providing a model of desire satisfaction . I address this apparent contradiction: I believe an accurate understanding of his discussion of music revises our impression of his metaphysics.
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Norman, J. (2017). Music and Pessimism. In: Shapshay, S. (eds) The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook. Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6_10
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