The Kantian Foundation of Schopenhauer's Pessimism

ISBN-13: 9781138744271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Dennis Vanden Auweele

Opis

This book connects Schopenhauer’s philosophy with transcendental idealism by exploring the distinctly Kantian roots of his pessimism. By clearly discerning four types of coming to knowledge, it demonstrates how Schopenhauer’s epistemology can enlighten this connection with other areas of his philosophy—his metaphysics, ethics and action, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and asceticism. In each of these areas, a specific sense of pessimism serves to disarm a number of paradoxes and inconsistencies typically associated with Schopenhauer’s philosophy. Schopenhauer on Knowledge and Pessimism shows how Schopenhauer’s claim that he is a true successor to Kant can be justified.

O autorze

Dennis Vanden Auweele is assistant professor of philosophy of religion at the RU Groningen (University of Groningen) and postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven (University of Leuven). He is the editor (with Jonathan Head) of Schopenhauer’s Fourfold Root (Routledge, 2017) and, in Dutch, ‘Philosophy at Twilight: On Power and Hope, Impotence and Despair (2016).