Willing and Nothingness

Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-823590-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Willing and Nothingness illuminates Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Though Nietzsche was influenced by Schopenhauer's work in his early years, in his later writings he often appears dismissive of Schopenhauer. It is a mistake to take either of these facts at face value: a proper assessment demands an independent understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy, a close look at Nietzsche's development, and an analysis of the detailed continuities and contrasts with Schopenhauerian themes that permeate his work. This allows not only a reassessment of the connection between these two great thinkers, but a notable enrichment of our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy, which is too often studied in isolation from its intellectual roots.

With these aims, eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his 'great teacher'. These essays are accompanied by a short critical piece that Nietzsche wrote about Schopenhauer in 1868, newly translated and appearing here in English for the first time, and by a guide to all Nietzsche's references to Schopenhauer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janaway, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Christopher Janaway: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator

- 2: Maudmarie Clark: On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism

- 3: Ivan Soll: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Redemption of Life through Art

- 4: David E. Cartwright: Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy for Life

- 5: Kathleen Marie Higgins: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temperament and Temporality

- 6: David Berman: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Honest Atheism, Dishonest Pessimism

- 7: David Cooper: Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

- 8: Brian Leiter: The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche

- Appendix 1: Friedrich Nietzsche `On Schopenhauer'

- Appendix 2: Nietzsche's References to Schopenhauer

- Notes on the Contributors

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Janaway is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.