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.

Autorentext

Sandra Shapshay is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Political and Civic Engagement Program at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA. Her research focuses on Kant and Schopenhauer's aesthetic and ethical theories, as well as contemporary environmental aesthetics. Shapshay is working on a book that reconstructs Schopenhauer's ethical thought for contemporary use, and has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Schopenhauer's metaphysics, views on freedom, the sublime, and tragedy. With Levi Tenen, she is editing a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on environmental aesthetics and ethics.

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Inhalt

1. Introduction; Sandra Shapshay.- Part I. The Development of Schopenhauer's System.- 2. Becoming The Author of World as Will and Representation; David Cartwright.- 3. How Platonic are Schopenhauer's Platonic Ideas?; Wolfgang Mann.- 4. Schopenhauer's System of Freedom; Günter Zöller.- 5. Inspiration from India; Martina Kurbel.- Part II. Epistemology and Metaphysics.- 6 . A Dream within a Dream; Douglas McDermid.- 7. Schopenhauer's Two Metaphysics; Alistair Welchman.- 8. Metaphysics and the Sciences in Schopenhauer; Marco Segala.- Part III. Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art.- 9. Aesthetic Humanism;Elisabeth Millán.- 10 . Music and Pessimism; Judith Norman.- 11. Schopenhauer, Schenker, and the Will of Music; Diego Cubero.- Part IV. Ethical and Political Thought.- 12. Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics; Colin Marshall.- 13. Schopenhauer and Kant on Menschenliebe; Gudrun von Tevenar.- 14. Schopenhauer on the Moral Considerability of Animals; Sandra Shapshay.- 15. Schopenhauer on the State and Morality; David Woods.- Part V. Religion.- 16. Schopenhauer and Judaism; Robert Wicks.- 17. Schopenhauer's Christian Perspectives; Christopher Janaway.- 18. Schopenhauer and Gotama on Life's Suffering; Christopher Ryan.- Part VI. Legacy.- 19. Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism; Pearl Brilmyer.- 20. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer; João Constâncio.- 21. Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses; Matthew C. Altman & Cynthia D. Coe.- 22. Schopenhauer's French Reception; Arnaud François.- 23. Grappling with German Atheism and Pessimism; Christa Buschendorf.- 24. Conclusion; Sandra Shapshay.- Index.