Parerga and Paralipomena

Parerga and Paralipomena
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199242214

These works won widespread attention on their publication in 1851, and helped secure lasting international fame for Schopenhauer. Their intellectual vigour, literary power and rich diversity are still striking today.

Essays from the Edge

Essays from the Edge
Author: Martin Jay
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2011-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813931568

Over his distinguished career as a European intellectual historian and cultural critic, Martin Jay has explored a variety of major themes: the Frankfurt School, the exile of German intellectuals in America during the Nazi era, Western Marxism, the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, the discourse of experience in modern Europe and America, and lying in politics. Essays from the Edge assembles Jay’s writings from the intersections of this intellectual journey. Several essays focus on methodological debates in the humanities and social sciences: the limits of interdisciplinarity, the issue of national or universal philosophy, cultural relativism and visuality, and the implications of periodization in historical narrative. Others examine the concept of "scopic regime" and the metaphors of revolution and the gardening impulse. Among the theorists treated at length are Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. The essays also include several of Jay’s Salmagundi columns, dealing with subjects as varied as the new Museum of Modern Art in New York, the impact of Colin Wilson’s The Outsider, and the demise of the Partisan Review. All of these efforts can be considered what Arthur Schopenhauer called, to borrow the title of one of his most celebrated collections, "parerga and paralipomena." As essays from the edges of major projects, they illuminate Jay’s major arguments, elaborate points made only in passing in the larger texts, and explore ideas farther than would have been possible, given the focus of the larger works themselves. The result is a lively, diverse offering from an extraordinary intellect.

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1043
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316351793

With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes essays on method, logic, the intellect, Kant, pantheism, natural science, religion, education, and language. The present volume offers a new translation, a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. This readable and scholarly edition will be an essential reference for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.

Paralipomena

Paralipomena
Author: Bernhard Pick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1908
Genre: Apocryphal Gospels
ISBN:

Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament As Part of Christian Literature

Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament As Part of Christian Literature
Author: Marinus De Jonge
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004132948

This book analyses the Christian transmission of the Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, in particular the case of the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs" and the Greek "Life of Adam and Eve,"

Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0141921757

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Wagner among others.

Ancient Israelite And Early Jewish Literature

Ancient Israelite And Early Jewish Literature
Author: Th. Theodoor Christiaan Vriezen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2005
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004124276

This introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) offers a literary and historical-critical approach, containing some religio-historical or theological explanations where appropriate.

The Matter of Evil

The Matter of Evil
Author: Drew M. Dalton
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2023-10-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810146428

A provocative and entirely new account of ethical reasoning that reconceives the traditional understanding of ethical action negatively In this radical reconsideration of ethical reasoning in contemporary European philosophy, Drew M. Dalton makes the case for an absolutely grounded account of ethical normativity developed from a scientifically informed and purely materialistic metaphysics. Expanding on speculative realist arguments, Dalton argues that the limits placed on the nature of ethical judgments by Kant’s critique can be overcome through a moral evaluation of the laws of nature—specifically, the entropic principle that undergirds the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology. In order to extract a moral meaning from this simple material fact, Dalton scrutinizes the presumptions of classical accounts and traditional understandings of good and evil within the history of Western philosophy and ultimately asserts that ethical normativity can be reestablished absolutely without reverting to dogmatism. By overturning our assumptions about the nature and value of reality, The Matter of Evil: From Speculative Realism to Ethical Pessimism presents a provocative new model of ethical responsibility that is both logically justifiable and scientifically sound. Dalton argues for “ethical pessimism,” a position previously marginalized in the West, as a means to cultivate an account of ethical responsibility and political activism that takes seriously the unbecoming of being and the moral horror of existence.

Ancient Letters and the New Testament

Ancient Letters and the New Testament
Author: Hans-Josef Klauck
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2006
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 1932792406

"This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II. Comprehensive bibliographies and 54 exercises with answers suit this guide to student and scholar alike."--Publisher's website.