Better Consciousness (eBook, PDF)

Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value
Redaktion: Neill, Alex; Janaway, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value reassesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics and ethics and their contemporary relevance. * Features a collection of new essays from leading Schopenhauer scholars * Explores a relatively neglected area of Schopenhauer's philosophy * Offers a new perspective on a great thinker who crystallized the pessimism of the nineteenth century and has many points of contact with twenty-first century thought

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444322873
• Artikelnr.: 38305866

Autorenporträt

Alex Neill is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His current focus is on the history of 18th- and 19th-century philosophical aesthetics. He is co-editor (with Aaron Ridley) of The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern (1995) and Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, 3e (2007). Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His research interests fall chiefly in the areas of 19th -century German philosophy and aesthetics.  His recent books include Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Reading Aesthetics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (Blackwell, 2005), and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (Christopher Janaway
University of Southampton
UK and Alex Neill
University of Southampton
UK). 2. Back to Truth: Knowledge and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Schopenhauer (Paul Guyer
University of Pennsylvania
USA). 3. Aesthetic Experience in Schopenhauer's Metaphysics of Will (Alex Neill
University of Southampton
UK). 4. Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of Art (Bart Vandenabeele
Universiteit Gent
Belgium). 5. Poetic Intuition and the Bounds of Sense: Metaphor and Metonymy in Schopenhauer's Philosophy (Sandra Shapshay
Indiana University - Bloomington
USA). 6. Life is but a mirror: On the connection between ethics
metaphysics and character in Schopenhauer (Matthias Koßler
Johannes-Gutenberg Universität
Germany). 7. Knowledge and Selflessness: Schopenhauer and the Paradox of Reflection ( Bernard Reginster
Brown University
USA). 8. Natural Beauty and Optimism in Schopenhauer's Aesthetics (Robert Wicks
University of Auckland
New Zealand). 9. Compassion and Solidarity with Sufferers: The Metaphysics of Mitleid ( David E. Cartwright
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
USA). 10. Schopenhauer's Politics: Ethics
Jurisprudence and The State (Julian Young
University of Auckland
New Zealand). 11. Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
Death and Salvation (Neil Jordan
Godalming
UK). Index.