Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering - A Comparative Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Mathijs Peters studied Philosophy at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, The New School for Social Research, USA and the Institut Catholique de Paris, France. He obtained his PhD-degree at the University of Essex, UK and has published on Schopenhauer, Adorno and Merleau-Ponty, as well as on the relationship between philosophy and popular culture. Currently, he is a researcher at the 'Postwachstumskolleg' of the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. Klappentext Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts. Zusammenfassung Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism! which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction PART I: DETERMINISM, RATIONALITY, EMBODIMENT 2. A Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence 3. The World as Will 4. Irrationalism and Pessimism 5. The Whole is the Wrong 6. The Twitching of the Hand PART II: MORALITY, SALVATION, HAPPINESS 7. Neminem Laede - Injure No One 8. Being a Good Animal 9. The Road to Salvation 10. Rien Faire Comme une Bete 11. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction PART I: DETERMINISM, RATIONALITY, EMBODIMENT 2. A Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence 3. The World as Will 4. Irrationalism and Pessimism 5. The Whole is the Wrong 6. The Twitching of the Hand PART II: MORALITY, SALVATION, HAPPINESS 7. Neminem Laede - Injure No One 8. Being a Good Animal 9. The Road to Salvation 10. Rien Faire Comme une Bete 11. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: M Peters, M. Peters, Mathijs Peters
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.12.2014
• EAN: 9781137412164
• ISBN: 978-1-137-41216-4
• Seiten: 292
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; B, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Kafka, Ethics, Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, Experience, Philosophy, Embodiment, morality, Critical Theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Philosophy, Pain, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, Rationality, Addendum, bibliography, Compassion, Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy, Corporeality, comparative, Suffering, Optimism, Determinism, oral discourse