1st Edition

The Schopenhauerian Mind

Edited By David Bather Woods, Timothy Stoll Copyright 2024
592 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

592 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

592 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

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.