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Title

A companion to Schopenhauer / edited by Bart Vandenabeele.

Publication

Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Vandenabeele, Bart.

Description

xvi, 414 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer & rsquo;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.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 49

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 49.

Alternative Title

Schopenhauer

Subjects

• Philosophy
• Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Arthur Schopenhauer : the man and his work / Bart Vandenabeele -- Schopenhauer on scientific knowledge / Vojislav Bozickovic -- Perception and understanding : Schopenhauer, Reid and Kant / Paul Guyer -- Schopenhauer's philosophy of logic and mathematics / Dale Jacquette -- Schopenhauer's color theory / Paul F.H. Lauxtermann -- Schopenhauer and transcendental idealism / Douglas McDermid -- Schopenhauer's philosophy of the dark origin / William Desmond -- The consistency of Schopenhauer's metaphysics / G. Steven Neeley -- Schopenhauer on sex, love and emotions / Gudrun von Tevenar -- Schopenhauer and platonic ideas / Frank C. White -- Schopenhauer's On the will in nature : the reciprocal containment of idealism and realism / Robert Wicks -- Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Robert W. Hall -- Schopenhauer's theory of architecture / W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz -- The artist as subject of pure cognition / Matthias Kossler -- Schopenhauer on tragedy and the sublime / Alex Neill -- Schopenhauer and the objectivity of art / Bart Vandenabeele -- Schopenhauer on the metaphysics of art and morality / Daniel Came -- Schopenhauer on the value of compassion / David E. Cartwright -- Schopenhauer and Indian philosophy / David E. Cooper -- Life-denial versus life-affirmation : Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on pessimism and asceticism / Ken Gemes and Christopher Janaway -- Schopenhauer on the inevitability of unhappiness / Ivan Soll -- Schopenhauer and Freud / Stephan Atzert -- Schopenhauer's impact on European Literature / Paul Bishop -- Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner / Bernard Reginster -- Schopenhauer's influence on Wittgenstein / Severin Schroeder -- Schopenhauer's fairy tale about Fichte : the origin of The world as will and representation in German idealism / Gü̈̈nter Zöller.

Call Number

JFF 17-966

ISBN

• 9781405171038
• 1405171030

LCCN

2011024994

OCLC

732318613

Title

A companion to Schopenhauer / edited by Bart Vandenabeele.

Imprint

Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 49

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 49.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Vandenabeele, Bart.

Research Call Number

JFF 17-966