Dale Jacquette (ed.)

Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts

Herausgeber: Gaskell, Ivan; Kemal, Salim; Jacquette, Dale

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together thirteen new essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer's aesthetics from a wide spectrum of philosophical perspectives. The dynamics of the empirical will and Will as thing-in-itself in the interplay of Schopenhauer's metaphysics and philosophy of fine art has important implications for the freedom, salvation, and tragic suffering of the artist, the representation of Platonic Ideas in art, and the role of artistic inspiration, emotion, and aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful and sublime. These essays examine the unique theory Schopenhauer developed to explain the life and work of the artist, and the influence his aesthetic philosophy has had on subsequent artistic traditions in such diverse areas as music, painting, poetry, literature, and architecture. The authors present Schopenhauer's thought as a vital and enduring contribution to aesthetic theory, and to the idealist vision that continues to guide Romantic and neo-Romantic art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521473880
• ISBN-10: 0521473888
• Artikelnr.: 21273356

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Editor's acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1.
Schopenhauer's metaphysics of appearance and Will in the philosophy of art
Dale Jacquette; Part I. The Work of Art: Schopenhauer on the Nature of
Artistic Creation: 2. Knowledge and tranquility: Schopenhauer on the value
of art Christopher Janaway; 3. Schopenhauer and the aesthetics of
creativity Lucian Krukowski; 4. Art as liberation: a central theme of
Schopenhauer's philosophy John E. Atwell; Part II. The Experience of
Beauty:Schopenhauer's Theory of Aesthetic Encounter: 5. Pleasure and
knowledge in Schopenhauer's aesthetics Paul Guyer; 6. Schopenhauer and
aesthetic recognition Cheryl Foster; 7. Schopenhauer on beauty and ontology
Nathan Rotenstreich; 8. Schopenhauer, Heidegger, art and the will Julian
Young; Part III. Schopenhauer's Enduring Influence on the Arts: Idealism
and Romanticism: 9. Schopenhauer on music as the embodiment of Will
Lawrence Ferrara; 10. Schopenhauer and the musicians: an inquiry into the
sounds of silence and the limits of philosophizing about music Lydia Goehr;
11. Metaphysics and aesthetics: a case study of Schopenhauer and Thomas
Hardy T. J. Diffey; 12. Schopenhauer according to the Symbolists: the
philosophical roots of late nineteenth-century French aesthetic theory
Shehira Doss-Davezac; 13. Schopenhauer's philosophy of architecture
Mitchell Schwarzer; Bibliography of selected sources on Schopenhauer's
aesthetics; Index.