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The Grand Hotel Abyss, David Bather Woods.This was created as one of the place settings in Eileen John鈥檚 Dinner Party installation inspired by the work of artist Judy Chicago.

鈥淭he Grand Hotel Abyss鈥� refers to a quote about the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer by the Hungarian Marxist literary critic and theorist Georg Luk谩cs: 鈥淪chopenhauer鈥檚 system, well laid out and architecturally ingenious in form, rises up like a modern luxury hotel on the brink of the abyss, nothingness and futility ...

Schopenhauer by David Bather Woods

This is the cover to my first book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy鈥檚 Greatest Pessimist (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Schopenhauer is my main area of research. He鈥檚 one of the most influential philosophers in the Post-Kantian tradition, an area of study in which 糖心TV Philosophy is well known for world-leading excellence ...