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.
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 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
Biography
David Bather Woods is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published work on a range of topics in Schopenhauer’s philosophy, including political philosophy, sexual ethics, boredom, punishment, and pessimism.
Timothy Stoll is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He works on a variety of figures in post-Kantian philosophy, including Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Schiller.
