Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena
Schopenhauer: <I>Parerga and Paralipomena</I>
Adrian Del Caro, University of Tennessee
Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton
With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes essays on method, logic, the intellect, Kant, pantheism, natural science, religion, education, and language. The present volume offers a new translation, a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. This readable and scholarly edition will be an essential reference for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.
- Provides a new, up-to-date translation of this historically important collection of essays
- The first English edition to be translated and edited by specialists in philosophy and German studies, and to give thorough scholarly notes on the differences between editions
- Includes a scholarly introduction outlining the context of the works and a guide to reading them
Reviews & endorsements
"This latest installment in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer is a very welcome appearance for the English-speaking scholarly world."
Dennis Vanden Auweele, Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger
Product details
October 2017Paperback
9781108436526
701 pages
230 × 155 × 40 mm
1.03kg
2 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- General editor's preface
- Editorial notes and references
- Introduction
- Notes on text and translation
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume 2: Sporadic yet systematically ordered thoughts on multifarious topics
- 1. On philosophy and its method
- 2. On logic and dialectic
- 3. Some thoughts concerning the intellect in general and in every respect
- 4. Some observations on the antithesis of the thing in itself and the appearance
- 5. Some words on pantheism
- 6. On philosophy and natural science
- 7. On colour theory
- 8. On ethics
- 9. On jurisprudence and politics
- 10. On the doctrine of the indestructibility of our true essence by death
- 11. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the nothingness of existence
- 12. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the suffering of the world
- 13. On suicide
- 14. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the affirmation and negation of the will to life
- 15. On religion
- 16. Some remarks on Sanskrit literature
- 17. Some archaeological observations
- 18. Some mythological observations
- 19. On the metaphysics of the beautiful and aesthetics
- 20. On judgment, criticism, approbation and fame
- 21. On learning and the learned
- 22. Thinking for oneself
- 23. On writing and style
- 24. On reading and books
- 25. On language and words
- 26. Psychological remarks
- 27. On women
- 28. On education
- 29. On physiognomy
- 30. On noise and sounds
- 31. Similes, parables and fables
- Some verses
- Versions of Schopenhauer's text
- Glossary of names
- Index.
