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Book SynopsisA new translation of Schopenhauer's collection of popular philosophical essays, featuring a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. Essential for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsGeneral 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.
