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An outstanding, wide-ranging collection that explores the rich nature of Schopenhauer's ideas, texts and legacy. Comprising 38 original chapters it is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, Continental philosophy and philosophy of art and aesthetics.
List of contents
Introduction
David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll Part 1: Knowledge and Reality 1. Realism and Its Discontents
Douglas McDermid 2. Schopenhauer's Representationalist Theory of Rationality: Logic, Eristic, Language and Mathematics
Jens Lemanski 3. Schopenhauer's Metaphysical Two-Aspect Account of the World and the Will to Life
Manja Kisner 4. Schopenhauer's Theory of Science
Timothy Stoll 5. Representing Nothing: Schopenhauer "Decoding" Acoustical Science
Steven P. Lydon 6. Schopenhauer's Synoptic Metaphilosophy
Alexander S. Sattar 7. Time, Death, and Boredom in Schopenhauer: Existential Themes in his Theory of (Self-)consciousness
João Constâncio 8. "
Zwar ein Wissen, jedoch keine Wissenschaft": Schopenhauer's Ambivalent Philosophy of History
Anthony K. Jensen Part 2: Aesthetics and the Arts 9. Schopenhauer's Aesthetic Ideology
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse 10. Artistic Creativity and the Ideal of Beauty: The Representation of Human Beauty in Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Art
Bart Vandenabeele 11. Schopenhauer and the Beauty of the Past
Peter Poellner 12. The Significance of
Nichtigkeit in Schopenhauer's Account of the Sublime
Patrick Hassan 13. Schopenhauer on Music
Andrew Huddleston 14. The Moral Weight of Art in Schopenhauer
Sandra Shapshay Part 3: Ethics, Politics, and Salvation 15. Schopenhauer's Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics
Colin Marshall and Kayla Mehl 16. Schopenhauer and Modern Moral Philosophy
Stephen Puryear 17. Acquired Character
Sean T. Murphy 18. A Schopenhauerian Solution to Schopenhauerian Politics
David Bather Woods 19. Schopenhauer's Critique of the State
Jakob Norberg 20. Schopenhauer's Pessimism
Byron Simmons 21. Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Religion
Jonathan Head 22. Ways to Salvation: On Schopenhauer's Theory of Self-Negation and Salvation
Mathijs Peters Part 4: Before Schopenhauer 23. Philosophy contra History? Schopenhauer on the History of Philosophy
Sabine Roehr 24. Schopenhauer, Europe, and Eurocentrism
Christopher Janaway 25. Schopenhauer on the Pessimism, Fatalism, and Superstitions of Herodotus and the Greek Tragedians
Mor Segev 26. Schopenhauer on Stoicism as a Way of Life and on the Wisdom of Life
Keith Ansell-Pearson 27. Schopenhauer on Spinoza: Animals, Jews, and Evil
Yitzhak Y. Melamed 28. Compassion, Egoism and Selflessness: Schopenhauer's Problematic Debt to Rousseau
David James 29. Kant's Monstrous Claim: Schopenhauer on the Intuitive Understanding and the Cognition of Causes
Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval 30. In Agon with Goethe:
Parerga and Paralipomena 2
Adrian Del Caro 31. Schopenhauer and Hegel
Stephen Houlgate Part 5: After Schopenhauer 32. 'Either Shudder or Laugh': Kierkegaard on Schopenhauer
Patrick Stokes 33. Wagner and Schopenhauer
Mark Berry 34. Thomas Mann on Schopenhauer: A Philosopher of the Future?
Paul Bishop 35. Wittgenstein's Reception of Schopenhauer. A Systematization and Evaluation
Michä Dobrzäski 36. Melancholy and Pessimism: Adorno's Critique of Schopenhauer
Brian O'Connor 37. Iris Murdoch and Schopenhauer
Miles Leeson 38. Schopenhauer in Latin America: Borges, and Funes, and the Poetry of Thought
Elizabeth Millán Brusslan. Index
About the author
David Bather Woods is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published work on a range of topics in Schopenhauer's philosophy, including political philosophy, sexual ethics, boredom, punishment, and pessimism.
Timothy Stoll is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He works on a variety of figures in post-Kantian philosophy, including Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Schiller.
