The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook

Description

This comprehensive Handbook offers a leading-edge yet accessible guide to the most important facets of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophical system, the last true system of German philosophy. Written by a diverse, international and interdisciplinary group of eminent and up-and-coming scholars, each of the 28 chapters in this Handbook includes an authoritative exposition of different viewpoints as well as arguing for a particular thesis. Authors also put Schopenhauer’s ideas into historical context and connect them when possible to contemporary philosophy. Key features: Structured in six parts, addressing the development of Schopenhauer’s system, his epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics and philosophy of art, ethical and political thought, philosophy of religion and legacy in Britain, France, and the US. Special coverage of Schopenhauer’s treatment of Judaism, Christianity, Vedic thought and Buddhism Attention to the relevance of Schopenhauer for contemporary metaphysics, metaethics and ethics in particular. The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook is an essential resource for scholars as well as advanced students of nineteenth-century philosophy. Researchers and graduate students in musicology, comparative literature, religious studies, English, French, history, and political science will find this guide to be a rigorous and refreshing Handbook to support their own explorations of Schopenhauer’s thought. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Introduction (Sandra Shapshay)....Pages 1-7 Front Matter ....Pages 9-9 Becoming the Author of World as Will and Representation: Schopenhauer’s Life and Education 1788–1818 (David E. Cartwright)....Pages 11-41 How Platonic Are Schopenhauer’s Platonic Ideas? (Wolfgang-Rainer Mann)....Pages 43-63 Schopenhauer’s System of Freedom (Günter Zöller)....Pages 65-84 Inspiration from India (Martina Kurbel)....Pages 85-104 Front Matter ....Pages 105-105 A Dream Within a Dream: Idealism and Pessimism in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (Douglas McDermid)....Pages 107-128 Schopenhauer’s Two Metaphysics: Transcendental and Transcendent (Alistair Welchman)....Pages 129-149 Metaphysics and the Sciences in Schopenhauer (Marco Segala)....Pages 151-175 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Aesthetic Humanism: Poetry’s Role in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel and Schopenhauer (Elizabeth Millán)....Pages 179-196 Music and Pessimism (Judith Norman)....Pages 197-212 Schopenhauer, Schenker, and the Will of Music (Diego Cubero)....Pages 213-235 Front Matter ....Pages 237-237 Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics (Colin Marshall)....Pages 239-259 Schopenhauer and Kant on Menschenliebe (Gudrun von Tevenar)....Pages 261-282 Schopenhauer on the Moral Considerability of Animals: Toward a Less Anthropocentric Ethics (Sandra Shapshay)....Pages 283-298 Schopenhauer on the State and Morality (David Woods)....Pages 299-322 Front Matter ....Pages 323-323 Schopenhauer and Judaism (Robert Wicks)....Pages 325-349 Schopenhauer’s Christian Perspectives (Christopher Janaway)....Pages 351-372 Schopenhauer and Gotama on Life’s Suffering (Christopher Ryan)....Pages 373-394 Front Matter ....Pages 395-395 Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism (S. Pearl Brilmyer)....Pages 397-424 Nietzsche and Schopenhauer: On Nihilism and the Ascetic “Will to Nothingness” (João Constâncio)....Pages 425-446 Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud (Matthew C. Altman, Cynthia D. Coe)....Pages 447-471 Schopenhauer’s French Reception (Arnaud François)....Pages 473-483 Grappling with German Atheism and Pessimism: The Reception of Schopenhauer in the USA (Christa Buschendorf)....Pages 485-507 Conclusion (Sandra Shapshay)....Pages 509-513 Back Matter ....Pages 515-520