1 The power and influence of Schopenhauer was due in no small degree to the poetic passion which is at work in his writing. His metaphors are so striking that they can be traced through later writers, like marker elements in an X-ray photograph.'
The Rt Hon Enoch Powell. MP, reviews BRYAN MAGEE 'S recently published account of The Philosophy o/ Schopenhauer and considers the reasons for the philosopher's fluctuating reputation sincehisdeath.
