... an incarnation of Socratism (leading to nihilism). The second part begins giving an account of the wager that Faust makes with Mephistopheles and also a literary explanation of Faust's redemption. This is followed by an account of Faust's striving and redemption in relation to the wager; again first a Schopenhauerian ... understanding of human limitation he still tries to overcome this with transcendent means. For Faust to be Schopenhauerian he would have to have come to terms with the failure at all attempts at satisfaction and this he simply does not do. This is compounded by Faust's a...

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