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Zusatztext Overall, this is another excellent book by Beiser, unearthing another major, overlooked controversy in the history of philosophy, with a cast of insightful philosophers making arguments that deserve continued attention. Throughout, Beiser balances accessibility to non-specialists and substantive engagement with important secondary literature on Schopenhauer. He not only explains the views of the participants in this great philosophical drama, but inserts himselfand his readersinto that drama. He describes systems, arguments, and objections so richly that I often found myself interjecting my own thoughts about how one or another philosopher might respond to various objections. Informationen zum Autor Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the US, and studied in the UK at Oriel and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford. He also studied in Germany and lived in Berlin for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung. He has taught in universities across the US, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Beiser is the author of Schiller as Philosopher (OUP, 2005), Diotima's Children (OUP, 2009), The German Historicist Tradition (OUP, 2011), Late German Idealism (OUP, 2013), and The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796-1880 (OUP, 2014). Klappentext Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. Zusammenfassung Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Schopenhauer Legacy 2: Schopenhauer's Metaphysics 3: Schopenhauer's Pessimism 4: The Illusion of Redemption 5: Julius Frauenstädt: Apostle and Critic 6: The Optimism of Eugen Dühring 7: The Optimistic Pessimism of Eduard von Hartmann 8: The Pessimism Controversy, 1870-1890 9: Mainländer's Philosophy of Redemption 10: The Pessimistic Worldview of Julius Bahnsen Bibliography ...
