Understanding Schopenhauer through the Prism of Indian Culture

Understanding Schopenhauer through the Prism of Indian Culture
Author: Arati Barua
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110271583

Arthur Schopenhauer was the first Western thinker who incorporated thoughts of the Upanishads in his own philosophy. His appreciation for Indian philosophy and culture is quite well known. Presently serious research work is going on in different disciplines in different academic institutions and universities in the West to examine the influence of Indian philosophy and culture in the philosophical thinking of Germany, particularly in relation to Arthur Schopenhauer and vice versa. This book provides a common platform for interaction to the scholars from East and West to express their views on the link between Eastern and Western philosophy. It significantly contributes to a better understanding not only of the connection between Schopenhauer and Indian philosophical systems but also of the increasing interest in this relation. The book includes papers of eminent scholars. The papers shed new light on the relationship between Schopenhauer's philosophy and the different aspects of Indian philosophy and culture, and thus offer a rich source of research material.

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1

Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 1
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2014-02-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107728991

With the publication of the 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', the 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 his 'Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life', reflections on fate and clairvoyance, trenchant views on the philosophers and universities of his day, and an enlightening survey of the history of philosophy. 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.

Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'

Schopenhauer's 'The World as Will and Representation'
Author: Judith Norman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108808069

Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation is one of the central texts in the history of Western philosophy. It is one of the last monuments to the project of grand synthetic philosophical system-building, where a single, unified work could aim to clarify, resolve, and ground all the central questions of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, religion, aesthetics and science. Poorly received at its initial publication, it soon became a powerful cultural force, inspiring not only philosophers but also artists, writers and musicians, and attracting a large popular audience of non-scholars. Perhaps equally importantly, Schopenhauer was one of the first European philosophers to take non-Western thought seriously and to treat it as a living tradition rather than as a mere object of study. This volume of new essays showcases the enormous variety of contemporary scholarship on this monumental text, as well as its enduring relevance.

The World According to Kant

The World According to Kant
Author: Anja Jauernig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199695385

The distinction between appearances and things in themselves lies at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and has been the focus of fierce debate among scholars for centuries. Anja Jauernig offers an interpretation of Kant's critical idealism as an ontological position, as developed in the Critique of Pure Reason and associated texts.

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophers
ISBN: 0691178984

Produced by Copenhagen's Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre, this volume, the first of an eleven-volume series, offers an insight into Kierkegaard's inner life. In addition to early drafts of his published works, it also contains his thoughts on events and philosophical and theological matters and ideas for future literary projects.

Nihilism Before Nietzsche

Nihilism Before Nietzsche
Author: Michael Allen Gillespie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1995-02-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226293479

Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1: Descartes and the Deceiver God 2: Descartes and the Origin of the Absolute I 3: Fichte and the Dark Night of the Noumenal I 4: The Dawn of the Demonic: Romanticism and Nihilism 5: The Demons Unbound: Russian Nihilism and the Pursuit of the Promethean 6: From the Demonic to the Dionysian 7: Dionysus and the Triumph of Nihilism Epilogue List of Abbreviations Notes Index.