Contents
PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The Philosophy of a Nonconformist (1788-1860) I. The Unsettled Years: 1788-1831II. The Stable Years: 1833-1860Part I: Schopenhauerʹs Theoretical PhilosophyChapter Two: Historical BackgroundI. Mind-Dependent Qualities vs. Mind-Independent QualitiesII. Space and TimeChapter Three: The Principle of Sufficient Reason I. The Root of All ExplanationII The Four Basic Forms of ExplanationChapter Four: Schopenhauerʹs Idealism and his Criticism of Kant I. The Rejection of a Mind-Independent RealityII. Kantʹs Theory of PerceptionIII. Kantʹs Use of the Term "Object"IV. The Logic of ManifestationChapter Five: The World in Itself as a Meaningless and Almighty Will I. Universal SubjectivityII. The World as WillIII. The Two-Tiered Objectification of the Will: Platonic Ideas and Spatio-Temporal IndividualsChapter Six: Critical Interpretations of the World as Will I. Scientific Knowledge, Philosophical Knowledge and Mystical KnowledgeII. Regular Time Versus the Eternal PresentPart II: Schopenhauerʹs Practical PhilosophyChapter Seven: Endless Suffering in the Daily World I. A Universal Will Without PurposeII. The Purposelessness of Schopenhauerʹs Thing-in-ItselfIII. Life as Embittering: Schopenhauer and BuddhismChapter Eight: Tranquillity I: Sublimity, Genius and Aesthetic ExperienceI. Platonic Ideas and Aesthetic ExperienceII. Artistic Genius and the Communication Theory of ArtIII. The Hierarchy of the Visual and Verbal ArtsIV. Tragedy and SublimityV. Music and Metaphysical ExperienceChapter Nine: Tranquillity II: Christlike Virtue and Moral Awareness I. Empathy as the Foundation of Moral AwarenessII. Intelligible, Empirical and Acquired CharacterIII. Humanityʹs Sublime AnguishChapter Ten: Tranquillity III: Asceticism, Mysticism and BuddhismI. The Possibility of the Denial-of-the-WillII. Christian Quietism, Yogic Ecstasy, and Buddhist EnlightenmentIII. Asceticism and Spiritual PurificationPart III: Schopenhauer in PerspectiveChapter Eleven: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Eternal LifeI. The Question of Lifeʹs ValueII. Funereal Imagery and Nietzscheʹs Theory of TragedyIII. Schopenhauerʹs Moral Awareness and Eternal RecurrenceIV. The Eternalistic Illusion of Supreme HealthV. Nietzscheʹs Madness and Eternalistic ConsciousnessChapter Twelve: Schopenhauer, Hegel and Alienated LaborI. The Worldʹs Essence: Rational or Irrational?II. Labor, Imprisonment and ChristianityIII. The World as Will and Representation and "Self-Consciousness" in HegelʹsPhenomenologyPart IV: Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein and the UnspeakableI. The Quest for Absolute ValueII. What the Philosophical Investigations Cannot SayConclusion: Idealism and the Will to Peace I. The Plausibility of Schopenhauerʹs IdealismII. The Explanatory Weakness of a Blind and Senseless WillIII. The Prospect of PeaceBibliography.
