Companion to Schopenhauer

Bart Vandenabeele is Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, tragedy, the sublime, aesthetic judgment, and the values of art and literature. He has published chiefly in the areas of philosophical aesthetics, the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century philosophy, and the philosophy of language and communication. He is associate editor of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.

“This volume as a whole does a fine job in discussing these. And, unlike the volume on Hegel, this one can be used by students and readers new to Schopenhauer; this will be a good companion.”  (Reference Reviews, 26 August 2012)“The essays uniformly succeed in engaging their topics in ways that will make them accessible to intermediate undergraduates but also interest graduate students and scholars.  Summing Up: Highly recommended.  Intermediate to advanced undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 September 2012)

• Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xivA Note on Cross-References xvList of Abbreviations xviIntroduction: Arthur Schopenhauer: The Man and His Work 1Bart VandenabeelePart I Nature, Knowledge and Perception 91 Schopenhauer on Scientific Knowledge 11Vojislav Bozickovic2 Perception and Understanding: Schopenhauer, Reid and Kant 25Paul Guyer3 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics 43Dale Jacquette4 Schopenhauer’s Color Theory 60Paul F.H. Lauxtermann5 Schopenhauer and Transcendental Idealism 70Douglas McDermidPart II World, Will and Life 876 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of the Dark Origin 89William Desmond7 The Consistency of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics 105G. Steven Neeley8 Schopenhauer on Sex, Love and Emotions 120Gudrun von Tevenar9 Schopenhauer and Platonic Ideas 133Frank C. White10 Schopenhauer’s On the Will in Nature: The Reciprocal Containment of Idealism and Realism 147Robert WicksPart III Art, Beauty and the Sublime 16311 Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Music 165Robert W. Hall12 Schopenhauer’s Theory of Architecture 178W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz13 The Artist as Subject of Pure Cognition 193Matthias Kossler14 Schopenhauer on Tragedy and the Sublime 206Alex Neill15 Schopenhauer and the Objectivity of Art 219Bart VandenabeelePart IV Compassion, Resignation and Sainthood 23516 Schopenhauer on the Metaphysics of Art and Morality 237Daniel Came17 Schopenhauer on the Value of Compassion 249David E. Cartwright18 Schopenhauer and Indian Philosophy 266David E. Cooper19 Life-Denial versus Life-Affi rmation: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Pessimism and Asceticism 280Ken Gemes and Christopher Janaway20 Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Unhappiness 300Ivan SollPart V Schopenhauer’s Context and Legacy 31521 Schopenhauer and Freud 317Stephan Atzert22 Schopenhauer’s Impact on European Literature 333Paul Bishop23 Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner 349Bernard Reginster24 Schopenhauer’s Infl uence on Wittgenstein 367Severin Schroeder25 Schopenhauer’s Fairy Tale about Fichte: The Origin of The World as Will and Representation in German Idealism 385Günter ZöllerIndex 403