The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer

Author: Janaway, Christopher (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

Published on 13 October 1999 by CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy' series.

Paperback / softback | 494 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
229 x 153 x 27 | 744g

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyses the related but distinct components of will from the point of view of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of psychoanalysis. This volume explores Schopenhauer's philosophy of death, his relationship to the philosophy of Kant, his use of ideas drawn from both Buddhism and Hinduism, and the important influence he exerted on Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein.