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The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century philosophy, art, music, and intellectual history
  • Includes contributions from an international and diverse set of voices in the world of Schopenhauer scholarship
  • Covers all of the major facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophical system: metaphysics and epistemology (part II) and theory of value (parts III and IV)

Part of the book series: Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism (PHGI)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Introduction

    • Sandra Shapshay
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Development of Schopenhauer’s System

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. How Platonic Are Schopenhauer’s Platonic Ideas?

      • Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
      Pages 43-63
    3. Schopenhauer’s System of Freedom

      • Günter Zöller
      Pages 65-84
    4. Inspiration from India

      • Martina Kurbel
      Pages 85-104
  4. Epistemology and Metaphysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
  5. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
    2. Music and Pessimism

      • Judith Norman
      Pages 197-212
  6. Ethical and Political Thought

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
    2. Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics

      • Colin Marshall
      Pages 239-259
    3. Schopenhauer and Kant on Menschenliebe

      • Gudrun von Tevenar
      Pages 261-282
    4. Schopenhauer on the State and Morality

      • David Woods
      Pages 299-322

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

    Sandra Shapshay

About the editor

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.

 

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook

  • Editors: Sandra Shapshay

  • Series Title: Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62947-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62946-9Published: 31 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87435-7Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62947-6Published: 23 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6230

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6249

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 520

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: German Idealism, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Epistemology

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eBook USD 219.00
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Softcover Book USD 279.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 279.99
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