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Schopenhauer Literary Corpus
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About
A curated collection of philosophical texts from one of history's most influential pessimist thinkers, Arthur Schopenhauer. This corpus contains the full texts of his most famous works, spanning from The World as Will to his later writings. It is designed to facilitate Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks and deep textual analysis for enthusiasts of data science and philosophy.
Columns
The dataset includes five key fields derived from web scraping and processing the original texts. The columns are:
- Auto-increment: A sequential identifier field.
- book_title: The title of the specific literary work included in the corpus.
- publishing_date: The original date of publication for the specific work, useful for tracking chronological development of ideas.
- text: The raw, original text content as initially extracted.
- text_clean: A pre-processed, tokenized, and cleaned version of the text, suitable for immediate algorithmic analysis.
Distribution
The textual data is packaged as a single CSV file, schopenhauer_works_corpus.csv, with a size of approximately 10.21 MB. The dataset currently consists of 13 total records, representing 13 unique book titles. All records are valid and fully populated across the five columns. The content is expected to be updated on a quarterly frequency.
Usage
This resource is highly versatile for various computational tasks. Ideal applications include conducting an exploratory analysis focused on calculating term frequency, generating visual aids such as a word cloud to illustrate Schopenhauer's central concepts, and developing a recommendation system for readers based on the sequential evolution of philosophical ideas.
Coverage
The material exclusively covers the literary output of Arthur Schopenhauer, specifically his most renowned books. The original publishing dates for the works included range from 1813 up to 1890. The texts were sourced from published literary works and do not contain geographic or demographic data.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
- Data Scientists and NLP Practitioners: For training text classification models, performing tokenization and stemming practice, and conducting textual stylometry studies.
- Philosophy Students and Researchers: To analyse the chronological shift in pessimistic ideas and compare concepts across his literary career.
- Hobbyists: Seeking open-ended, creative exploration opportunities at the intersection of data science and classical philosophy.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- Schopenhauer Literary Corpus
- Pessimist Philosophy Text Collection
- Schopenhauer's Complete Works for NLP
- Arthur Schopenhauer Bibliography
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Original Data Source: Schopenhauer Literary Corpus
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