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Through reflections on theism, optimism, animal rights , and Schopenhauer’s Jewish acquaintances, this chapter argues that Schopenhauer’s views on Judaism and Jews were conflicted: He identified with the social situation of the Jews as an alienated minority, but he regarded Judaism as the historical source of his own alienated condition as a philosophical outcast.
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Wicks, R. (2017). Schopenhauer and Judaism. 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_16
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