ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788 - 1860)

ASSOCIATIONS

• Japan Schopenhauer Association
• Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft

CONFERENCES

• Schopenhauer and the Philosophy of Value: Schopenhauer's Aesthetics and Ethics and their Contemporary Relevance, University of Southampton, July 9-12, 2007

COURSES

• University of Pennsylvania: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (Bowman)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Works.  Ed. Will Durant.  New York: Frederick Ungar, 1928.

  • 'Religion: a Dialogue,' and Other Essays.  Trans. T. Bailey Saunders.  London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1899.

  • Parerga und Paralipomena.  1851.

    • Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays.  2 Vols.  Trans. E. F. J. Payne.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1974.

    • Essays and Aphorisms.  Trans. R. J. Hollingdale.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • .  1841.

    • The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics.

  • “Über die Grundlage der Moral.”  1840.

    • On the Basis of Morality.  Trans. E. F. J. Payne.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.

  • “Über die Freiheit des menschlichen Willens.”  1839.

    • On Freedom of the Human Will.  Trans. K. Kolenda.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.

  • Über den Willen in der Natur.  1836.

    • On the Will in Nature. 

  • Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung.  1818.  2nd Ed. in 2 Vols, 1844.  3rd Ed. in 2 Vols, 1859.

    • The World as Will and Representation.  2 Vols.  Trans. E. F. J. Payne.  New York: Dover, 1958-1969.

    • The World as Will and Idea.  3 Vols.  Trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1883.

      • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.  496-507.

  • Über das Sehn und die Farben.  1816.

    • On Vision and Colors.

  • Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde.  1813.  Rev. Ed. 1847.

    • The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.  Trans. E. F. J. Payne.  La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1974.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Arthur Schopenhauer (eBooks@Adelaide)

  • Electronic Texts (EpistemeLinks)

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Essays (1851) (Project Gutenberg)

  • Art of Literature (Project Gutenberg)

  • The World as Will and Representation (1818) (Marxists.Org)

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
  • Fox, M., ed.  Schopenhauer: his Philosophical Achievement.  Brighton: Harvester, 1980.

  • Jacquette, D., ed.  Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts.  Cambridge: CUP, 1996.

  • Janaway, Christopher, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.
  • Janaway, Christopher, ed.  Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.

  • von der Luft, E., ed.  Schopenhauer: New Essays in Honor of his 200th Birthday.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.

• Selected Individual Works:
  • Atwell, J.  Schopenhauer on the Character of the World.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.
  • Atwell, J.  Schopenhauer: The Human Character.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990.

  • Caldwell, William.  Schopenhauer's System in its Philosophical Significance.  1896.

  • Carroll, Noel.  "Arthur Schopenhauer."  The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and David L. Sherman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.  30-42.

  • Coppleston, F. S.  Arthur Schopenhauer: Philosopher of Pessimism.  1946.

  • Gardiner, Patrick.  Schopenhauer.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.

  • Hamlyn, D. W.  Schopenhauer.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

  • Hammermeister, Kai.  "Schopenhauer."  The German Aesthetic Tradition.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.  111-127.

  • Harland, Richard.  "The Influence of Kant (also Schelling, Coleridge, Goethe, Schiller, Schopenhauer)."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  65-69.

  • Higgins, Kathleen.  "Arthur Schopenhauer."  The Age of German Idealism.  Vol. 6 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins.  London: Routledge, 1993.  330-362.

  • Hübscher, A.  The Philosophy of Schopenhauer in its Intellectual Context: Thinker Against the Tide.  Trans. Joachim T. Baer and David E. Humphrey.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.

  • Janaway, Chrisopher.  "Schopenhauer's Pessimism."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  47-63.

  • Janaway, Christopher.  Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.

  • Janaway, Christopher.   Schopenhauer.  Oxford: OUP, 1994.  Rpt. as Schopenhauer: a Very Short Introduction.  2002.

  • Magee, Bryan.  The Philosophy of Schopenhauer.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1983.

  • Rethy, Robert Aaron.  "The World as Will: Schopenhauer."  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  81-90.

  • Rethy, Robert.  "Schopenhauer."  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  139-152.

  • Rockmore, Tom.  Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.

  • Schroeder, William.  "Life-Philosophy and Subconscious Forces: Schopenhauer, Freud and Bergson."  Continental Philosophy: a Critical Approach.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.  93-116.

  • Safranski, R. 

    • Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy.  Trans. Ewald Osers.  London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989.

  • Simmel, Georg.  1907.

    • Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.  Trans. Helmut Loiskandl, Deena Weinstein, and Michael Weinstein.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1986.

  • Solomon, Robert C.  "The Self Turned Sour: Schopenhauer."  Continental Philosophy since 1750: the Rise and Fall of the Self.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.  75-85.

  • Teichman, Jenny.  "Arthur Schopenhauer."  An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy.  Ed. Jenny Teichman and Graham White.  London: Macmillan, 1995.  38-48.

  • Tsanoff, R. A.  Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's Theory of Experience.  New York: Longmans, Green, 1911.

  • Young, Julian.  Schopenhauer. London: Routledge, 2005.

  • Young, Julian.  Willing and Unwilling: a Study in the Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.  Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhof, 1987.

  • Wallace, W.   Life of Arthur Schopenhauer.  London: Walter Scott, 1890.

  • Whittaker, Thomas.  Schopenhauer.  1909.

  • White, F. C.  On Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

  • Wicks, Robert.  Schopenhauer.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.

  • Zimmern, H.  Arthur Schopenhauer: his Life and Philosophy.  London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1876.

  • Zoller, Gunter.  "German Realism: the Self-Limitation of Idealist Thinking in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer."  Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.  Ed. Karl Ameriks.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  200-218.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Mazard, Eisel: Schopenhauer and the Empirical Critique of Idealism in the History of Ideas

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• Ross, Kelley: Arthur Schopenhauer (Friesian.Com)

• Young, Christopher, and Andrew Brook: Schopenhauer and Freud

• Wicks, Robert: Arthur Schopenhauer (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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