Schopenhauer

This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer.

• Focuses on the concept of the sublime as it clarifies Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory, moral theory and asceticism
  
• Explores the substantial relationships between Schopenhauer's philosophy and Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity
  
• Defends Schopenhauer's position that absolute truth can be known and described as a blindly striving, all-permeating, universal "Will"
  
• Examines the influence of Asian philosophy on Schopenhauer
  
• Describes the relationships between Schopenhauer's thought and that of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein.

Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04/28/2008
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.43w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781405134804

About the Author
Robert Wicks is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Modern French Philosophy: From Existentialism to Postmodernism (2003), Nietzsche (2002), and Hegel's Theory of Aesthetic Judgment (1994). He is also the author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Schopenhauer.