Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)

Cambridge University Press, 1/18/1996
EAN 9780521473880, ISBN10: 0521473888

Hardcover, 324 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This collection brings together thirteen essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer's aesthetics from a wide spectrum of philosophical perspectives. The dynamics of the empirical will and Will as a thing-in-itself in the interplay of Schopenhauer's metaphysics and philosophy of fine art has important implications for the freedom, salvation and tragic suffering of the artist, the representation of Platonic Ideas in art, and the role of artistic inspiration, emotion and aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful and sublime. These essays examine the unique theory Schopenhauer developed to explain the life and work of the artist, and the influence his aesthetic philosophy has had on subsequent artistic traditions in such diverse areas as music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture. The authors present Schopenhauer's thought as a vital and enduring contribution to aesthetic theory, and to the idealist vision which continues to guide Romantic and neo-Romantic art.

List of contributors
Editor's acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Schopenhauer's metaphysics of appearance and Will in the philosophy of art Dale Jacquette
Part I. The Work of Art
Schopenhauer on the Nature of Artistic Creation
2. Knowledge and tranquility
Schopenhauer on the value of art Christopher Janaway
3. Schopenhauer and the aesthetics of creativity Lucian Krukowski
4. Art as liberation
a central theme of Schopenhauer's philosophy John E. Atwell
Part II. The Experience of Beauty:Schopenhauer's Theory of Aesthetic Encounter
5. Pleasure and knowledge in Schopenhauer's aesthetics Paul Guyer
6. Schopenhauer and aesthetic recognition Cheryl Foster
7. Schopenhauer on beauty and ontology Nathan Rotenstreich
8. Schopenhauer, Heidegger, art and the will Julian Young
Part III. Schopenhauer's Enduring Influence on the Arts
Idealism and Romanticism
9. Schopenhauer on music as the embodiment of Will Lawrence Ferrara
10. Schopenhauer and the musicians
an inquiry into the sounds of silence and the limits of philosophizing about music Lydia Goehr
11. Metaphysics and aesthetics
a case study of Schopenhauer and Thomas Hardy T. J. Diffey
12. Schopenhauer according to the Symbolists
the philosophical roots of late nineteenth-century French aesthetic theory Shehira Doss-Davezac
13. Schopenhauer's philosophy of architecture Mitchell Schwarzer
Bibliography of selected sources on Schopenhauer's aesthetics
Index.