Mythos and Logos

Schopenhauer on Religion and Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-33689-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures

This edited volume contains chapters discussing Schopenhauer’s account of the criteria that distinguish philosophy from religion. It explores his account through a range of approaches, including its epistemological consistency, its application to determinate religious doctrines, its origin within Schopenhauer’s intellectual context, its relation to his accounts of aesthetic, moral and soteriological value and the epistemic status of science, as well as its reception in subsequent thinkers. 

It is the first edited volume in English devoted entirely to Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion. The contributions emerged from a lively workshop on Schopenhauer’s contrast between religious mythos and philosophical logos, held at The 4th Congress on Logic and Religion in Sinaia, Romania, in September 2023. The volume brings together a genuinely international range of perspectives, with contributors from the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, Brazil, India and Japan. 

The book is of interest to scholars and students working on Schopenhauer, as well as to intellectual historians, theologians, cultural theorists and religious studies scholars. Although Schopenhauer's theory of religion has been well-received within Schopenhauer studies and philosophy more broadly, it has received comparatively little attention within religious studies or theology. This volume conveys the merits and contemporary relevance of Schopenhauer’s thought on religion to a wider scholarly audience.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, Chris

Lemanski, Jens

Kittsteiner, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Mythos and Logos in Schopenhauer – Overview and Introduction Christopher Ryan, Jens Lemanski, Christina Kittsteiner.- Part II Mythos and Religion.- Chapter 2 Three directions of the critique of religion—with special reference to Schopenhauer’s dialogue Religion Dieter Birnbacher.- Chapter 3 Allegory and Allegoresis: Schopenhauer’s bridge between Mythos and Logos Christopher Ryan.- Part III Mythos and Theology.- Chapter 4 Schopenhauer and the ‘theoretical oracle’ of intellectual intuition David Sommer.- Chapter 5 Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics in Confrontation with Phenomenological Theology: Schopenhauer’s Response to Michel Henry’s Critique Tadahiro Oota.- Part IV Mythos and Knowledge.- Is knowledge made of a harder material than faith? Mythos and Logos in Schopenhauer Matthias Koßler.- Chapter 7 Beyond Logos and Mythos: Schopenhauer-inspired Epistemic Discourses and the Riddle of Science Denialism Michael Pedroso.- Part V Mythos and Logical Reasoning.- Chapter 8 Schopenhauer’s Eristic View of Religion Christina Kittsteiner.- Chapter 9 Schopenhauer’s Visual Dialectics in Philosophy of Religion Reetu Bhattacharjee.- Part VI Mythos and the Saintly.- Chapter 10 Can we act morally like saints? Exemplarism and Representationalism Jens Lemanski.- Chapter 11 The Significance of the Saint Painting in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy Yasunari Tsutsumida.- Part VII Mythos and Poetry.- Schopenhauer, Cioran and the doctrine of privatio mali in Romantic poetry Stefan Bolea.- Chapter 13 „Life is a jest and all things show it / I thought so once but now I know it.” The Importance of Logic for the Negation of the Will Thomas Regehly.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jens Lemanski is Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Münster and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hagen. He is co-editor of the journal "History and Philosophy of Logic" (Taylor & Francis), editorial board member of the "Logic and Religion Association", and head of the Hagen branch of the Schopenhauer Gesellschaft e.V. He has published in numerous renowned journals such as Argumentation, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Logic, and Synthese. He has also published three monographs on Schopenhauer and the philosophy of religion.
 
Christopher Ryan is Lecturer in Sociology at Southampton Solent University, where he teaches modules on politics, philosophy and the sociology of religion. His main area of expertise is, how-ever, in the philosophy of religion. His publications have focussed mainly on Schopenhauer's rela-tion to Indian religion and philosophy.

Christina Kittsteiner is a PhD Student at the Institute of Philosophy at the Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany. Her current research focuses on Arthur Schopenhauer and his Eristic Dialectic, as well as his works on logic. Further research interests include the History and Philosophy of Logic, Diagrams and Diagrammatic Logic as well as Argumentation Theory.