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Janaway provides a detailed and critical account of Schopenhauer's central philosophical achievement: his account of the self and its relation to the world of objects. The author's approach to this theme is historical, yet is designed to show the philosophical interest of such an approach. He explores in unusual depth Schopenhauer's often ambivalent relation to Kant, and highlights the influence of Schopenhauer's view of self and world on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, as well as tracing the many points of contact between Schopenhauer's thought and current philosophical debates about the self.
Janaway provides a detailed and critical account of Schopenhauer's central philosophical achievement: his account of the self and its relation to the world of objects. The author's approach to this theme is historical, yet is designed to show the philosophical interest of such an approach. He explores in unusual depth Schopenhauer's often ambivalent relation to Kant, and highlights the influence of Schopenhauer's view of self and world on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, as well as tracing the many points of contact between Schopenhauer's thought and current philosophical debates about the self.
Introduction
1: The Development of Schopenhauer's Philosophy
2: Kantian Objects
3: Kantian Subjects
4: Subject and Object in Schopenhauer
5: Idealism
6: Materialism
7: Knowing the Thing in Itself
8: Willing and Acting
9: Determinism and Responsibility
10: The Primacy of Will
11: Freedom from Will
12: Self and World
13: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche
14: Conclusions
Bibliography; Index
indispensable to any philosopher concerned with this difficult
topic
*Sir Peter Strawson*
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