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Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899012827
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Death and the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by . This book was released on 1986-10-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Cartwright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144226795X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy written by David E. Cartwright and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Schopenhauer made the momentous decision to become a philosopher when he was approximately 22 years old. Prior to that decision, he had been studying medicine at the university in Göttingen. By that age, however, he had concluded that life was a troublesome affair. So he resolved to spend his life reflecting upon it. Schopenhauer was doggedly determined to persevere in what he considered his mission in life, to reflect on the “ever-disquieting puzzle of existence,” to ascertain the meaning of living in a world steeped in suffering and death. He was confident that eventually his work would be recognized, a confidence that enabled him to weather laboring in relative philosophical obscurity for some forty years. What initiated the dawn of Schopenhauer’s fame was a review of his philosophy that appeared in a British journal in 1853, and ever since that time, Schopenhauer drew a readership, one broader than most Western philosophers. He is read not simply and solely by professional philosophers, but also by the wider learned world. Indeed, some have claimed that he is the most widely read Western philosopher. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on all of Schopenhauer’s books, significant philosophical ideas and concepts, as well as entries covering significant figures in his life and those influenced by this thinking.. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Arthur Schopenhauer.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : FV Éditions
ISBN 13 : 236668665X
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (666 download)
Download or read book The Metaphysics Of The Love Of The Sexes written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Love an Illusion ? What is the relationship between Love and Sexual Impulse ? Schopenhauer gives us a new way of thinking about relationships between men and women.
Author : R. Raj Singh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154428
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Death, Contemplation and Schopenhauer written by R. Raj Singh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connections between death, contemplation and the contemplative life have been a recurrent theme in the canons of both western and eastern philosophical thought. This book examines the classical sources of this philosophical literature, in particular Plato's Phaedo and the Katha Upanishad and then proceeds to a sustained analysis and critical assessment of the sources and standpoints of a single thinker, Arthur Schopenhauer, whose work comprehensively pursues this problem. Going beyond the well examined western influences on Schopenhauer, Singh offers an in-depth account of Schopenhauer's references to eastern thought and a comprehensive examination of his eastern sources, particularly Vedanta and Buddhism. The book traces the pivotal issue of death through the whole range of Schopenhauer's writings uncovering the deeper connotations of his crucial notion of the will-to-live.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826407293
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Writings: Arthur Schopenhauer written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As composer Richard Wagner noted, with Schopenhauer one may finally give voice to the secretly held belief that the world is bad. This blunt honesty was Schopenhauer's trademark. Perhaps no philosopher equaled him in relatinf metaphysical speculation to the seemingly random events of everyday life. This volume includes " On Thinking for Oneself," "On the Affirmation of the Will-to-Live," "On Suicide," "The World as Will: Second Aspect," "On the Fundamental View of Idealism," "On the Metaphysics of Music," "The Foundation of Ethics," and other essential writings.
Author : Sophia Vasalou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024404
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint written by Sophia Vasalou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to the visionary power of Schopenhauer's work. The aim of this book is to place the aesthetic character of Schopenhauer's standpoint at the heart of the way we read his philosophy and the way we answer the question: why read Schopenhauer - and how? Approaching his philosophy as an enactment of the sublime with a longer history in the ancient philosophical tradition, Vasalou provides a fresh way of assessing Schopenhauer's relevance in critical terms. This book will be valuable for students and scholars with an interest in post-Kantian philosophy and ancient ethics.
Author : David E. Cartwright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521825989
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Schopenhauer written by David E. Cartwright and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive biography of Schopenhauer written in English. Placing him in his historical and philosophical contexts, David E. Cartwright tells the story of Schopenhauer's life to convey the full range of his philosophy. He offers a fully documented portrait in which he explores Schopenhauer's fractured family life, his early formative influences, his critical loyalty to Kant, his personal interactions with Fichte and Goethe, his ambivalent relationship to Schelling, his contempt for Hegel, his struggle to make his philosophy known, and his reaction to his late-arriving fame.
Author : Carl B. Becker
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414767
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death written by Carl B. Becker and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-09-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews accounts of demon-possession, memories of past lives, ghostly apparitions, and out-of-body experiences collected from Europe, Asia, and the Americas over the past century; and examines the tension between religious and scientific perspectives on the phenomena, the medical evidence, and the taboo on studying such subjects in the social sciences. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ortrun Schulz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3735757103
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Schopenhauer's Critique of Hope written by Ortrun Schulz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope is at the core of human existence. It can either be an emotion or an attitude. In either case, it is a natural and basic affection of the mind. This analysis of hope will clarify the concept by dealing with its involvement in knowledge, ethics and metaphysics. Hope can lead to truth or error, depending on whether it is a presentation of probabilities by the intellect, or just a reflection of expectations from the will. In this book, a short survey of views on hope, from the history of philosophy, will be followed by an account of Schopenhauer's critical approach. Hope will be treated within his framework of optimism and pessimism, and of how it may serve as an important element in the critique of ideologies.
Author : Irina Paperno
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801454956
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book "Who, What Am I?" written by Irina Paperno and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do..." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopia—turning the totality of his life into a book—would remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. "Who, What Am I?" is an account of Tolstoy's lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, and the meticulous accounts of dreams. For Tolstoy, inherent in the structure of the narrative form was a conception of life that accorded linear temporal order a predominant role, and this implied finitude. He refused to accept that human life stopped with death and that the self was limited to what could be remembered and told. In short, his was a philosophical and religious quest, and he followed in the footsteps of many, from Plato and Augustine to Rousseau and Schopenhauer. In reconstructing Tolstoy's struggles, this book reflects on the problems of self and narrative as well as provides an intellectual and psychological biography of the writer.
Author : John E. Atwell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915151
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Schopenhauer on the Character of the World written by John E. Atwell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation, demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation, and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies.
Author : Karoline Gritzner
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1907396284
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance written by Karoline Gritzner and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros and Death are the two central drives and compulsions of the human psyche, and their dynamic interconnectedness has been pervasive in the formation of Western thought and culture. The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection of dramatic texts, theatrical practices and cultural performances. Topics explored range from Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theatre, the work of Georg Büchner, Bertolt Brecht, the kiss of death in opera, the theatricality of Parisian culture, to the performance of conjuring, contemporary Britis.
Author : Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486130932
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The World as Will and Representation written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought.
Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3838215915
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy written by Gregory Maertz and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Maertz has written extensively on Romantic and Modern literature, art, and ideas. In these nine related essays, he investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. The comparative essays in Part One examine the affinity between the religious logic of Sir Thomas Browne and Søren Kierkegaard; Tolstoy’s enduring attraction to Schopenhauer’s thought; Rilke’s debts to the sculptor Rodin; the identification of an early novel by William Godwin as the chief precursor text to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; and the corresponding literary projects of Osip Mandelstam, Rilke, and David Jones. In Part Two the essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America: a reconsideration of the life of William Godwin; the central role played by English radicals in the transmission of German literature; Godwin’s innovations in travel fiction; and the crystallization of authorial identity around the influence of Goethe in the work of women writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot.
Author : Bart Vandenabeele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119144809
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Schopenhauer written by Bart Vandenabeele and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer’s work and illuminates the debates it has generated 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer’s work Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness
Download or read book the philosophy of schopenhauer written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Sayama
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418760
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Samādhi written by Mike Sayama and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The key to self-development, says Mike Sayama, is the experience of Samadhi, a state of relaxed concentration in which the individual neither freezes out of fear nor clings due to desire. Simply stated, samadhi is the free flow of vital energy within the body and between the body and the universe. Moving effortlessly across traditions and techniques, Sayama discovers that sages throughout history—Greek philosophers, German mystics, Indian seers, and our own Albert Einstein among others—have taught that this experience of transcendental oneness lies at the heart of full self-realization. The first part of the book studies self-realization in Zen Buddhism. The author pinpoints its essence in Buddha's enlightenment. The development of Zen is then traced, continuing down to living masters who in very recent times have transplanted their lineages from Japan to the United States. Sayama notes that we must choose as masters those to whom the authentic teaching has been transmitted through generations, and he examines in loving detail the sometimes strange and astonishing behaviors of those whose very presence communicates the state of samadhi. The second part of the book presents Zen therapy, a way of self-development emphasizing the cultivation of samadhi through psychophysical training. Sayama compares the effects of Rolfing, Feldenkrais, and Zen therapy on the human body and mind. He includes easy-to-follow directions for creating the inner state he describes. He tells vivid stories of extraordinary cases treated from the point of view that the best therapy is nothing less than the removal of all dualism. Four main practices are presented: zazen (meditation), hara development, circulation of the vital energy, and communication.
