Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : values and the will of life / Christopher Janaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janaway, Christopher, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Will--Philosophy.

Will.

Philosophy of mind.

Ethics.

Religions.

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860--Criticism and interpretation.

Schopenhauer, Arthur.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Criticism and interpretation.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 309 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Values and the will of life

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

©2022

Summary:

This book brings together fourteen of the author's essays on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, all but one previously published in journals or scholarly collections. They illuminate central philosophical issues in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer-the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the affirmation or negation of life. Some of the essays concern Schopenhauer in his own right, focusing on his concept of will to life, an underlying drive which constitutes our inner essence, but which traps us in self-centred desire, a wrong identification of our true self with the human individual, an egoistic conception of the good, conflict with other beings, and an existence pervaded by suffering. Opposed to the will to life stands everything of real value: art, morality, and the kind of redemption from suffering recognized by mystics from several of the world's religions. Other essays discuss Nietzsche's critical responses to Schopenhauer, and his own challenging views on related topics. For Nietzsche, morality is a questionable phenomenon and egoism is wrongly maligned; suffering is an enhancement of life, and the attempt to eliminate it is impoverishing; art is full, not drained, of willing; the world religions and the whole idea of being saved from our life are symptoms of a malaise from which modern culture has somehow to recover. The book also features discussions of the reception of Schopenhauer by two contemporaries of Nietzsche, Richard Wagner and the analyst of pessimism, Olga Plümacher.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and References

Introduction

PART I . SCHOPENHAUER ON THE WILL

1. The Real Essence of Human Beings: Schopenhauer and the Unconscious Will

2. Necessity, Responsibility, and Character: Schopenhauer on Freedom of the Will

3. Schopenhauer on the Aimlessness of the Will

4. What's So Good about Negation of the Will? Schopenhauer and the Problem of the summum bonum

PART I I . SCHOPENHAUER: BEING, NOT BEING, AND THE INDIVIDUAL

5. Beyond the Individual: Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Value of Love

6. Schopenhauer's Consoling View of Death

7. Worse than the Best Possible Pessimism? Olga Plümacher's Critique of Schopenhauer

PART I I I . NIETZSCHE RESPONDS TO SCHOPENHAUER

8. Schopenhauer's Christian Perspectives

9. On the Very Idea of 'Justifying Suffering'

10. Affect and Cognition in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

PART IV. NIETZSCHE: SUFFERING, AFFIRMATION, AND ART

11. Beauty is False, Truth Ugly: Nietzsche on Art and Life

12. Attitudes to Suffering: Parfit and Nietzsche

13. Nietzsche on Morality, Drives, and Human Greatness

14. Who-or What-Says Yes to Life?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on September 16, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Janaway, Christopher Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

ISBN:

0-19-263501-8

0-19-196644-4

0-19-263502-6

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780198865575.001.0001 DOI