Willing and Nothingness Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator

by Janaway, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780198235903
• ISBN10: 0198235909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-14
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Willing and Nothingness illuminates Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Though Nietzsche was influenced by Schopenhauer's work in his early years, in his later writings he often appears dismissive of Schopenhauer. It is a mistake to take either of thesefacts at face value: a proper assessment demands an independent understanding of Schopenhauer's philosophy, a close look at Nietzsche's development, and an analysis of the detailed continuities and contrasts with Schopenhauerian themes that permeate his work. This allows not only a reassessment ofthe connection between these two great thinkers, but a notable enrichment of our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy, which is too often studied in isolation from its intellectual roots. With these aims, eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his'great teacher'. These essays are accompanied by a short critical piece that Nietzsche wrote about Schopenhauer in 1868, newly translated and appearing here in English for the first time, and by a guide to all Nietzsche's references to Schopenhauer.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Conventions	vi
Introduction	1	(12)
1. Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator	13	(24)
Christopher Janaway
2. On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism	37	(42)
Maudemarie Clark
3. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Redemption of Life through Art	79	(37)
Ivan Soll
4. Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy for Life	116	(35)
David E. Cartwright
5. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temperament and Temporality	151	(27)
Kathleen Marie Higgins
6. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Honest Atheism, Dishonest Pessimism	178	(18)
David Berman
7. Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche	196	(21)
David E. Cooper
8. The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche	217	(41)
Brian Leiter
Appendix I. On Schopenhauer (1868)	258	(8)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Appendix 2. Nietzsche's References to Schopenhauer	266	(13)
Notes on the Contributors	279	(2)
Bibliography	281	(8)
Index	289