Tag: Schopenhauer
16 Dec, 2017
Video essays on Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer and the insufficiency of modesty: New video essay on the times and opinions of Arthur Schopenhauer. After 17 years of silence Schopenhauer decided to participate in a competiti…
15 Dec, 2016
Schopenhauer’s lineage
Schopenhauer is well known for his assertion that what disappears with our demise is the most vulgar and uninteresting part of our existence: in other words, when we die our individuality goes away. T…
12 Nov, 2016
Spinoza on Descartes
The mind has greater power over the emotions and is less subject thereto, in so far as it understands all things as necessary.Spinoza, Ethics, V
It is thoroughly established that Baruch Spinoza drew …
3 Nov, 2016
Nietzsche’s rejection of happiness
Nietzsche makes no secret of that it is Schopenhauer – Europe’s great pessimist – that is his true and most magnificent teacher. It is from him that Nietzsche got his idea of the will as essenti…
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator with PhDs in Philosophy (European Graduate School, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton University, 2012). His latest books include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019). Fjeld regularly publishes articles in journals such as Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and Journal of Silence Studies in Education. Fjeld serves as Head of the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts. He is a Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions. Fjeld has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa.