The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer's Pessimism

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-88879-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 379 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy. The individual chapters in this book discuss how these knowledge types—immediate or mediate, representational or non-representational—relate to Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer's Pessismism shows how Schopenhauer’s claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanden Auweele, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Deutscher Idealismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Schopenhauer’s Philosophical Pedigree

2. Schopenhauer on Knowledge

3. Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics

4. Schopenhauer on Ethics and Action

5. Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Religion

6. Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics

7. Schopenhauer’s Ascetics

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis Vanden Auweele is assistant professor of philosophy of religion at the RU Groningen (University of Groningen) and postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (University of Leuven). He is the editor (with Jonathan Head) of Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (Routledge, 2017) and, in Dutch, ‘Philosophy at Twilight: On Power and Hope, Impotence and Despair (2016).