A Companion to Schopenhauer

Herausgeber: Vandenabeele, Bart

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. * A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer * Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer's work and illuminates the debates it has generated * 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship * Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer's work * Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 172mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781119144809
• ISBN-10: 1119144809
• Artikelnr.: 42835335

Autorenporträt

Bart Vandenabeele is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. He has written extensively on 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of language and communication. Vandenabeele is associate editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication and a member of the international advisory board of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xiv A Note on Cross-References xv
List of Abbreviations xvi Introduction: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Man and
His Work 1 Bart Vandenabeele Part I Nature, Knowledge and Perception 9 1
Schopenhauer on Scientific Knowledge 11 Vojislav Bozickovic 2 Perception
and Understanding: Schopenhauer, Reid and Kant 25 Paul Guyer 3
Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 43 Dale Jacquette 4
Schopenhauer's Color Theory 60 Paul F.H. Lauxtermann 5 Schopenhauer and
Transcendental Idealism 70 Douglas McDermid Part II World, Will and Life 87
6 Schopenhauer's Philosophy of the Dark Origin 89 William Desmond 7 The
Consistency of Schopenhauer's Metaphysics 105 G. Steven Neeley 8
Schopenhauer on Sex, Love and Emotions 120 Gudrun von Tevenar 9
Schopenhauer and Platonic Ideas 133 Frank C. White 10 Schopenhauer's On the
Will in Nature: The Reciprocal Containment of Idealism and Realism 147
Robert Wicks Part III Art, Beauty and the Sublime 163 11 Schopenhauer's
Philosophy of Music 165 Robert W. Hall 12 Schopenhauer's Theory of
Architecture 178 W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz 13 The Artist as Subject of Pure
Cognition 193 Matthias Kossler 14 Schopenhauer on Tragedy and the Sublime
206 Alex Neill 15 Schopenhauer and the Objectivity of Art 219 Bart
Vandenabeele Part IV Compassion, Resignation and Sainthood 235 16
Schopenhauer on the Metaphysics of Art and Morality 237 Daniel Came 17
Schopenhauer on the Value of Compassion 249 David E. Cartwright 18
Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy 266 David E. Cooper 19 Life-Denial
versus Life-Affi rmation: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Pessimism and
Asceticism 280 Ken Gemes and Christopher Janaway 20 Schopenhauer on the
Inevitability of Unhappiness 300 Ivan Soll Part V Schopenhauer's Context
and Legacy 315 21 Schopenhauer and Freud 317 Stephan Atzert 22
Schopenhauer's Impact on European Literature 333 Paul Bishop 23
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner 349 Bernard Reginster 24 Schopenhauer's
Infl uence on Wittgenstein 367 Severin Schroeder 25 Schopenhauer's Fairy
Tale about Fichte: The Origin of The World as Will and Representation in
German Idealism 385 Günter Zöller Index 403