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 illuminatesthe debates it has generated 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the mostprominent 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 INDICE: Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xivA Note on Cross-References xvList of Abbreviations xviIntroduction: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Man and His Work 1Bart VandenabeelePart I Nature, Knowledge and Perception 91 Schopenhauer on Scientific Knowledge 11Vojislav Bozickovic2 Perception and Understanding: Schopenhauer, Reid and Kant 25Paul Guyer3 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 43Dale Jacquette4 Schopenhauer’s Color Theory 60Paul F.H. Lauxtermann5 Schopenhauer and Transcendental Idealism 70Douglas McDermidPart II World, Will and Life 876 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of the Dark Origin 89William Desmond7 The Consistency of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics 105G. Steven Neeley8 Schopenhauer on Sex, Love and Emotions 120Gudrun von Tevenar9 Schopenhauer andPlatonic Ideas 133Frank C. White10 Schopenhauer’s On the Will in Nature: The Reciprocal Containment of Idealism and Realism 147Robert WicksPart III Art, Beauty and the Sublime 16311 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Music 165Robert W. Hall12 Schopenhauer’s Theory of Architecture 178W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz13 The Artist as Subject of Pure Cognition 193Matthias Kossler14 Schopenhauer on Tragedy and the Sublime 206Alex Neill15 Schopenhauer and the Objectivity of Art 219Bart VandenabeelePart IV Compassion, Resignation and Sainthood 23516 Schopenhauer on the Metaphysics of Art and Morality 237Daniel Came17 Schopenhauer on the Value of Compassion 249David E. Cartwright18 Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy 266David E. Cooper19 Life-Denial versus Life-Affi rmation: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Pessimism and Asceticism 280Ken Gemes and Christopher Janaway20Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Unhappiness 300Ivan SollPart V Schopenhauer’s Context and Legacy 31521 Schopenhauer and Freud 317Stephan Atzert22 Schopenhauer’s Impact on European Literature 333Paul Bishop23 Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner 349Bernard Reginster24 Schopenhauer’s Infl uence on Wittgenstein 367Severin Schroeder25 Schopenhauer’s Fairy Tale about Fichte: The Origin of The World as Will and Representation in German Idealism 385Günter ZöllerIndex 403
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-4757-9
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Fecha Publicación: 26/03/2012
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