The Oxford Handbook of Schopenhauer

This collection of thirty-one essays encompasses Schopenhauer's central contributions, his influences, and the scope of his impact, especially on the arts and philosophy. Six sections cover the wide range of his thought, including its connection to religion, ethics, and art, as well as his influence and legacy.

Robert Wicks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His publications, which include ten books and many articles, range over 19th century European philosophy, Kant, existentialism, aesthetics, and Asian philosophy.

Introduction - Robert Wicks
PART I Biographical Context and Philosophical Influences
1. Schopenhauer's Intellectual Relationship with Goethe: An Ambivalent Affinity
Adrian Del Caro
2. Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's Influence on Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Benedikt Paul Göcke
3. Schopenhauer's Understanding of Schelling
Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman
4. Fichte and Schopenhauer on Knowledge, Ethics, Right, and Religion
Yolanda Estes
5. Schopenhauer and the Orient
Urs App
PART II Metaphysics of Will and Empirical Knowledge
6. The Enduring Kantian Presence in Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Sandra Shapshay
7. Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World
Ivan Soll
8. Force in Nature - Schopenhauer's Scientific Beginning
D. G. Carus
9. Schopenhauer and Hume on Will and Causation
Severin Schroeder
10. Schopenhauer's Haunted World: The Use of Weird and Paranormal Phenomena to Corroborate His Metaphysics
David Cartwright
11. The Mystery of Freedom
Pilar López de Santa María
PART III Aesthetic Experience, Music, and the Sublime
12. Classical Beauty and the Expression of Personal Character in Schopenhauer's Aesthetics
Robert Wicks
13. The Genius and the Metaphysics of the Beautiful
Maria Lucia Mello Oliveira Cacciola
14. Schopenhauer and the Paradox of the Sublime
Bart Vandenabeele
15. Schopenhauer and the Metaphysics of Music
Paul Gordon
PART IV HUMAN MEANING, POLITICS, AND MORALITY
16. The Moral Meaning of the World
Christopher Janaway
17. Schopenhauer's Pessimism in Context
Mark Migotti
18. Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy: Responding to Senselessness
Robert Guay
19. Schopenhauer on Law and Justice
Raymond B. Marcin
20. Schopenhauer, Buddhism, and Compassion
Richard Reilly
21. Schopenhauer and Confucian Thinkers on Compassion
Douglas Berger
PART V RELIGION AND SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY
22. Schopenhauer and the Diamond-Sutra
Christopher Ryan
23. Schopenhauer and Hindu Thought
R. Raj Singh
24. Schopenhauer and Christianity
Gerard Mannion
25. The Inscrutable Riddle of Schopenhauer Relations to Jews and to Judaism
Jacob Golomb
PART VI Schopenhauer's Influence
26. Post-Schopenhauerian Metaphysics: Hartmann, Mainländer, Bahnsen, and Nietzsche
Sebastian Gardner
27. Nietzsche's Schopenhauer
Tom Stern
28. Schopenhauer and the Unconscious
Stephan Atzert
29. Schopenhauer's Influence on Wagner
Kevin C. Karnes and Andrew J. Mitchell
30. Schopenhauer's Fin de Siècle Reception in Austria
Paul Bishop
31. The Next Metaphysical Mutation: Schopenhauer as Michel Houellebecq's Educator
Christopher A. Howard