A Companion to Schopenhauer (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119144809 ISBN 13: 9781119144809

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today.

• A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer
• Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer’s work and illuminates the debates it has generated
• 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship
• Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer’s work
• Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Schopenhauer is often considered an outsider among philosophers, and yet his philosophy deeply influenced key thinkers and writers, including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Proust, and remains a significant source of inspiration in philosophical research. A Companion to Schopenhauer offers the first comprehensive guide to the philosopher, covering all the major aspects of his work. It showcases contemporary scholarship on Schopenhauer and allows readers to engage in debates concerning Schopenhauer's ideas on a wide range of topics.

The reference contains 25 newly commissioned chapters by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. These cover Schopenhauer's life and thought, and the crucial areas of his work, including: nature, knowledge and perception; world, will and life; art, beauty and the sublime; compassion, resignation and sainthood; and in-depth discussion of the context and legacy of Schopenhauer's thought. Contributors also provide fresh treatments of his theory of the Platonic Ideas, his philosophy of resignation, his views on love and sexuality, his color theory, his relationship to Indian philosophy and to Freudian psychoanalysis, and his often neglected ideas on perception, mathematics, scientific knowledge and the will in nature.

About the Author:

Bart Vandenabeele is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. He has written extensively on 18th- and 19th-century philosophy, the history of aesthetics, the philosophy of art, and the philosophy of language and communication. Vandenabeele is associate editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication and a member of the international advisory board of the Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1119144809
• ISBN 13: 9781119144809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Vandenabeele Bart