Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation'

by Edited and translated by Judith Norman , Alistair Welchman , Edited by Christopher Janaway

• ISBN13: 9780521871846
• ISBN10: 0521871840
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, to ethics, the meaning of life and the philosophy of religion, in an attempt to account for the world in all its significant aspects. It gives a unique and influential account of what is and is not of value in existence, the striving and pain of the human condition and the possibility of deliverance from it. This new translation of the first volume of what later became a two-volume work reflects the eloquence and power of Schopenhauer's prose and renders philosophical terms accurately and consistently. It offers an introduction, glossary of names and bibliography, and succinct editorial notes, including notes on the revisions of the text which Schopenhauer made in 1844 and 1859.

Table of Contents

General editor's preface	p. vii
Editorial notes and references	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
Notes on text and translation	p. xlvii
Chronology	p. lvi
Bibliography	p. lix
The World as will and Representation Volume I
Preface to the first edition	p. 5
Preface to the second edition	p. 11
Preface to the third edition	p. 22
First Book: The world as representation, first consideration. Representation subject to the principle of sufficient reason: the object of experience and science	p. 23
Second Book: The world as will, first consideration. The objectivation of the will	p. 119
Third Book: The world as representation, second consideration. Representation independent of the principle of sufficient reason: the Platonic Idea: the object of art	p. 191
Fourth Book: The world as will, second consideration. With the achievement of self-knowledge, affirmation and negation of the will to life	p. 297
Appendix: Critique of the Kantian Philosophy	p. 441
Variants in different editions	p. 567
Glossary of names	p. 604
Index	p. 616
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