The Schopenhauerian Mind by Bather Woods, David; Stoll, Timothy;

Short description:

An outstanding, wide-ranging collection that explores the rich nature of Schopenhauer's ideas, texts and legacy. Comprising 38 original chapters it is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, Continental philosophy and philosophy of art and aesthetics.

Long description:

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is now recognised as a figure of canonical importance to the history of philosophy. Schopenhauer founded his system on a highly original interpretation of Kant’s philosophy, developing an entirely novel and controversial worldview guided centrally by his striking conception of the human will and of art and beauty. His influence extends to figures as diverse as Fredrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Iris Murdoch within philosophy, and Richard Wagner, Thomas Hardy, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges outside it.

The Schopenhauerian Mind is an outstanding, wide-ranging collection that explores the rich nature of Schopenhauer's ideas, texts, influences, and legacy. Comprising 38 original chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is organised into five clear parts:

• Knowledge and Reality


• Aesthetics and the Arts


• Ethics, Politics, and Salvation


• Before Schopenhauer


• After Schopenhauer

The Schopenhauerian Mind covers all the key areas and concepts of Schopenhauer’s philosophy, including fields omitted in previous studies. It is essential reading for students of nineteenth-century philosophy, Continental philosophy and philosophy of art and aesthetics, and also of interest to those in related disciplines such as literature and religion.

Table of Contents:

Introduction David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll  Part 1: Knowledge and Reality  1. Realism and Its Discontents Douglas McDermid  2. Schopenhauer’s Representationalist Theory of Rationality: Logic, Eristic, Language and Mathematics Jens Lemanski  3. Schopenhauer’s Metaphysical Two-Aspect Account of the World and the Will to Life Manja Kisner  4. Schopenhauer’s Theory of Science Timothy Stoll  5. Representing Nothing: Schopenhauer "Decoding" Acoustical Science Steven P. Lydon  6. Schopenhauer’s Synoptic Metaphilosophy Alexander S. Sattar  7. Time, Death, and Boredom in Schopenhauer:　Existential Themes in his Theory of (Self-)consciousness João Constâncio  8. "Zwar ein Wissen, jedoch keine Wissenschaft": Schopenhauer’s Ambivalent Philosophy of History Anthony K. Jensen  Part 2: Aesthetics and the Arts  9. Schopenhauer’s Aesthetic Ideology Michel-Antoine Xhignesse  10. Artistic Creativity and the Ideal of Beauty: The Representation of Human Beauty in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Art Bart Vandenabeele  11. Schopenhauer and the Beauty of the Past Peter Poellner  12. The Significance of Nichtigkeit in Schopenhauer’s Account of the Sublime Patrick Hassan  13. Schopenhauer on Music Andrew Huddleston  14. The Moral Weight of Art in Schopenhauer Sandra Shapshay  Part 3: Ethics, Politics, and Salvation  15. Schopenhauer’s Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics Colin Marshall and Kayla Mehl  16. Schopenhauer and Modern Moral Philosophy Stephen Puryear  17. Acquired Character Sean T. Murphy  18. A Schopenhauerian Solution to Schopenhauerian Politics David Bather Woods  19. Schopenhauer’s Critique of the State Jakob Norberg  20. Schopenhauer’s Pessimism Byron Simmons  21. Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Religion Jonathan Head  22. Ways to Salvation: On Schopenhauer’s Theory of Self-Negation and Salvation Mathijs Peters  Part 4: Before Schopenhauer  23. Philosophy contra History? Schopenhauer on the History of Philosophy Sabine Roehr  24. Schopenhauer, Europe, and Eurocentrism Christopher Janaway  25. Schopenhauer on the Pessimism, Fatalism, and Superstitions of Herodotus and the Greek Tragedians Mor Segev  26. Schopenhauer on Stoicism as a Way of Life and on the Wisdom of Life Keith Ansell-Pearson  27. Schopenhauer on Spinoza: Animals, Jews, and Evil Yitzhak Y. Melamed  28. Compassion, Egoism and Selflessness: Schopenhauer’s Problematic Debt to Rousseau David James  29. Kant’s Monstrous Claim: Schopenhauer on the Intuitive Understanding and the Cognition of Causes Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval  30. In Agon with Goethe: Parerga and Paralipomena 2 Adrian Del Caro  31. Schopenhauer and Hegel Stephen Houlgate  Part 5: After Schopenhauer  32. ‘Either Shudder or Laugh’: Kierkegaard on Schopenhauer Patrick Stokes  33. Wagner and Schopenhauer Mark Berry  34. Thomas Mann on Schopenhauer: A Philosopher of the Future? Paul Bishop  35. Wittgenstein's Reception of Schopenhauer. A Systematization and Evaluation Michał Dobrzański  36. Melancholy and Pessimism: Adorno’s Critique of Schopenhauer Brian O’Connor  37. Iris Murdoch and Schopenhauer Miles Leeson  38. Schopenhauer in Latin America: Borges, and Funes, and the Poetry of Thought Elizabeth Millán Brusslan.  Index