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The View from Mount Zapffe

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:15 pm
by Philosophy Now
Gisle Tangenes describes the life and ideas of a cheerfully pessimistic, mountain-climbing Norwegian existentialist.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_ ... unt_Zapffe

Re: The View from Mount Zapffe

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:23 pm
by Typist
“The human race come from Nothing and go to Nothing. Above that, there is Nothing.”
He even capitalized it, awesome!

Re: The View from Mount Zapffe

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:44 am
by Timos
I recently discovered that Zapffe’s major philosophical text, Om Det Tragiske from 1941, has finally been translated into English by American philosopher Ryan L Showler and is due for publication early March 2024 by Peter Lang with the title ‘On the Tragic’