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Willing and nothingness : Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's educator

Author: Christopher Janaway
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Named Person: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Friedrich Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche; Arthur Schopenhauer; Arthur Schopenhauer; Friedrich Nietzsche
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Janaway
ISBN: 0198235909 9780198235903
OCLC Number: 39348031
Description: 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's educator / Christopher Janaway --
On knowledge, truth, and value : Nietzsche's debt to Schopenhauer and the development of his empiricism / Maudemarie Clark --
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the redemption of life through art / Ivan Soll --
Nietzsche's use and abuse of Schopenhauer's moral philosophy for life / David E. Cartwright --
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : temperament and temporality / Kathleen Marie Higgins --
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : honest atheism, dishonest pessimism / David Berman. Self and morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche / David E. Cooper --
The paradox of fatalism and self-creation in Nietzsche / Brian Leiter.
Responsibility: edited by Christopher Janaway.
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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'.

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