I am glad others are reading Schopenhauer. In my view he is unfairly brushed over in the historiography, so to speak, of philosophy. He is pushed into the margins in favour of Hegel and the idealists, when he has merit both as an ethicist and as a post-Kantian metaphysician. Though I disagree with many of Schopenhauer's answers, especially those given by his ethics, he at least seizes upon the right problems.

It is quite impossible to justify how little Schopenhauer is read in the Anglosphere, especially considering the degree to which Nietzsche makes use of Schopenhauer. Without a close reading of Schopenhauer, the reader will miss the salience of many aphorisms which respond to specific passages e.g, in World as Will and Representation. Perhaps most importantly with regards to the impact of Schopenhauer on the history of philosophy, Nietzsche's conception of will to power is fundamentally impossible to understand unless one also understands Schopenhauer's will to live.

Finally, it must also be said that Schopenhauer was probably the most influential German philosopher in the late 19th century to 1918. Even 'non-philosophers' such as Erwin Schrödinger were well acquainted with the former's system, and the influence of Schopenhauer on practical sciences, in this case physics, though obscure and hard to quantify, has likely been great.