Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer''s Pessimism

This book connects Schopenhauer's philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer's epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types-immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational-relate to Schopenhauer's metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer's philosophy. The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer's Pessismism shows how Schopenhauer's claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Schopenhauer’s Philosophical Pedigree
2. Schopenhauer on Knowledge
3. Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
4. Schopenhauer on Ethics and Action
5. Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Religion
6. Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics
7. Schopenhauer’s Ascetics
Conclusion

About the author

Dennis Vanden Auweele is assistant professor of philosophy of religion at the RU Groningen (University of Groningen) and postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (University of Leuven). He is the editor (with Jonathan Head) of Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (Routledge, 2017) and, in Dutch, ‘Philosophy at Twilight: On Power and Hope, Impotence and Despair (2016).

Summary

This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy—his metaphysics, ethics and action, philoso

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Vanden Auweele, Dennis (University of Leuven Vanden Auweele, Vanden Auweele Dennis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367888794
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88879-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Idealism, Idealism, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought