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Schopenhauer.
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ISBN: 0415333474 0415333466 9780415333467 9780415333474 9780203022108 9781134328833 9781134328789 9781134328826 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Routledge

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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the Nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud, and Nietzsche. In this comprehensive introduction, Julian Young covers all the main aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy. Beginning with an overview of Schopenhauer's life and work, he introduces the central aspects of his metaphysics fundamental to understanding his work as a whole: his philosophical idealism and debt to the philosophy of Kant; his attempt to answer the question of what the world is; his account of science; and in particular his idea that "will" is the essence of all things. Julian Young then introduces and assesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics, which occupies a central place in his philosophy. He carefully examines Schopenhauer's theories of the sublime, artistic genius, and music, before assessing his ethics of compassion, his arguments for pessimism, and his account of ''salvation." In the final chapter, he considers Schopenhauer's legacy and his influence on the thought of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, making this an ideal starting point for those coming to Schopenhauer for the first time.

The tragic and the ecstatic
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ISBN: 1280428295 9786610428298 0195346521 1423734165 1602565260 9780195346527 9781423734161 9781602565265 0199851921 9780199851928 0195176472 9780195176476 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press

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Covers the philosophical and literary underpinnings of Wagner's and Schopenhauer's story. This work explores Schopenhauer's metaphysics and Gottfried van Strassburg's Tristan poem. It turns to the events in the opera, providing tonal and harmonic analyses to reinforce its interpretation of the drama. It also creates an account of Ristan.

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