Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will / Edition 1

by John E. Atwell

Overview

The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation, demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation, and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520087705
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/17/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John E. Atwell, Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, is author of Schopenhauer: The Human Character (1990) and Ends and Principles in Kant's Moral Thought (1986).