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    Peter Wessel Zapffe (18 December 1899 – 12 October 1990) was a Norwegian philosopher, author, artist, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his...
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  • philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe. One of his most significant works, this approximately 10 pages long essay would later be expanded upon in Zapffe’s book, On...
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  • Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2024/1941). On the Tragic. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers ISBN 978-1-636-67488-9 Essays Zapffe, Peter Wessel...
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  • ISBN 978-0-19-937811-1. Zapffe, Peter Wessel (2004). "The Last Messiah". Philosophy Now (45): 35–39. P. W. Zapffe, Om det tragiske, Oslo: Pax Forlag, 1996. Zapffe, P. W...
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    espoused philosophically pessimistic views include Emil Cioran, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Eugene Thacker, Thomas Ligotti, David Benatar, and Julio Cabrera...
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  • invoked the influence of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer and Peter Wessel Zapffe. Ligotti has suffered from chronic anxiety and anhedonia for much...
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  • African Republic Wessel Roux (born 1975), South African rugby player Wessel Jacobus Wessels (1865-1945), Boer general Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899 – 1990),...
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  • Peter Wessel Zapffe. In his essay Happiness Is for the Pigs: Philosophy versus Psychotherapy (1966), he formulated his attempt to "out-Zapffe Zapffe"...
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    Meaning of life Nihilism Non sequitur (literary device) Pataphysics Peter Wessel Zapffe Philosophical pessimism The Stranger (novel) Theatre of the Absurd...
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    Zapffe, Peter Wessel. "The Last Messiah". Philosophy Now (45). Gualeni, Stefano; Vella, Daniel (2021). "Existential Ludology and Peter Wessel Zapffe"...
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    Olga Plümacher Philipp Mainländer Eduard von Hartmann Agnes Taubert Peter Wessel Zapffe Emil Cioran Julio Cabrera David Benatar Concepts Antinatalism Duḥkha...
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  • under the rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. The Trouble with Being Born Peter Wessel Zapffe The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Cioran, Emil (1992) [Originally...
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  • the inevitability of death makes all ambition in life pointless. Peter Wessel Zapffe's view is that humans are born with an overdeveloped skill (understanding...
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  • 1920) 1990 – Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926) 1990 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899) 1991 – Sheila...
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    Olga Plümacher Philipp Mainländer Eduard von Hartmann Agnes Taubert Peter Wessel Zapffe Emil Cioran Julio Cabrera David Benatar Concepts Antinatalism Duḥkha...
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  • nihilist and antinatalist views. Among other sources, Ligotti cites Peter Wessel Zapffe's essay "The Last Messiah" and the writings of Emil Cioran (1911–1995)...
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  • Warren Ellis cites as an influence the nihilist philosophies of Thacker and Peter Sjöstedt-H for his 2017 series Karnak: The Flaw in All Things, a re-imagining...
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    for the Norwegian philosopher, humourist, author and mountaineer Peter Wessel Zapffe is located near the summit of Vesttoppen. Under good conditions in...
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  • Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589)[1][4][5] Edward N. Zalta (born 1952) Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363 – c. 1443)[4] Eduard Zeller (1814–1908)...
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    Olga Plümacher Philipp Mainländer Eduard von Hartmann Agnes Taubert Peter Wessel Zapffe Emil Cioran Julio Cabrera David Benatar Concepts Antinatalism Duḥkha...
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    who emigrated in 1903 Cora Sandel (1880–1974), writer and painter Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990), metaphysician, author, lawyer, and mountaineer Lars...
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  • of Norwegian philosophers Arne Naess, Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, and Peter Wessel Zapffe. The project promotes the inherent worth of living beings regardless...
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    Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Humberto Maturana, Georges Canguilhem, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze...
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  • by other philosophers like Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990), who used biology as the foundation of his philosophy. Zapffe first set out his ideas in Den...
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    significant impact on European and African literary existentialism Peter Wessel Zapffe December 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990 Norway Philosopher Founded biosophy...
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    York exchanges and the Produce Exchange Trust Company failed. Born: Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian author and philosopher; in Tromsø (d. 1990) Died: Fred...
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    nature and environmental protection, and influenced by Arne Næss, Peter Wessel Zapffe and Henri Bergson, he eventually developed his own original variant...
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  • Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (d. 1952) 1899 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990) 1904 – George Stevens...
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    She later returned to London with her company and performed in Peter Wessel Zapffe'sThe Prodigal Son. During her era, Carroll was one of the few women...
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