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:

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.

Beazley Addenda

Beazley Addenda
Author: John Davidson Beazley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The first edition of Beazley Addenda, published in 1982 as a product of the British Academy project at the the Beazley Archive, successfully brought up to date the bibliographical references to illustrations of vases listed Beazley's ABV, Arv2 and Paralipomena.This new edition, doubles the size of the previous one, adds references up to 1987. Also included are additional vases with Kalos names, and additional vases with potter or painter signatures.

Measuring Shadows

Measuring Shadows
Author: Raz Chen-Morris
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 027107731X

In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.

Optics

Optics
Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2000
Genre: Science
ISBN:

First (and only) English translation of the work that founded the modern science of optics. Originally published in Latin in 1604. Many diagrams and footnotes.