Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality (eBook, PDF)
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This volume is a unique collection of philosophical essays on various aspects of Schopenhauer's understanding of the nature and character of the world through the classical philosophies of the Vedanta and Buddhism and classical and modern thinkers like Bhartṛhari, Tagore, and Wittgenstein. It includes reflective insights about Schopenhauer and the metaphysics of the world, the self, and morality from scholars who have pioneered the philosophical study of the relation between Schopenhauer and Indian schools of thoughts and intellectual history. This insightful volume is a good academic resource…mehr

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This volume is a unique collection of philosophical essays on various aspects of Schopenhauer's understanding of the nature and character of the world through the classical philosophies of the Vedanta and Buddhism and classical and modern thinkers like Bhartṛhari, Tagore, and Wittgenstein. It includes reflective insights about Schopenhauer and the metaphysics of the world, the self, and morality from scholars who have pioneered the philosophical study of the relation between Schopenhauer and Indian schools of thoughts and intellectual history. This insightful volume is a good academic resource for further research in comparative philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Indian tradition.
Autorenporträt
Arati Barua is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, and the Founder Director of the Indian division of the Schopenhauer Society (IDSS), under the International Schopenhauer Society in Germany. Besides being a member of various academic societies such as the Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, Germany, North American division of Schopenhauer Society (NADSS), USA and Indian Association for Canadian Studies (IACS), India, she is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Schopenhauer Jahrbuch, Germany. She was awarded a Faculty Research Fellowship by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) to work on her project, "George Grant and M. K. Gandhi on technology and modernism", at the university of Guelph, Ontario. In 2006, she was awarded a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) fellowship by the German Research Foundation, Germany for her project on “Sankara and Schopenhauer: A comparative study”, to work at the Schopenhauer Research Center,Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. She has published several books on Schopenhauer, and was recently conferred the prestigious national award “Bharat Excellence 2016”, by the Friendship Forum of India (FFI) at New Delhi in recognition of excellence in her field of activity and enhancing the image of India. Dr Barua has also been awarded with “Bharat Jyoti Award 2015” and “Best Citizens of India 2015” by different institutions in India.