The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook (eBook)

Sandra Shapshay is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Political and Civic Engagement Program at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA. Her research focuses on Kant and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic and ethical theories, as well as contemporary environmental aesthetics. Shapshay is working on a book that reconstructs Schopenhauer’s ethical thought for contemporary use, and has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Schopenhauer’s metaphysics, views on freedom, the sublime, and tragedy. With Levi Tenen, she is editing a special issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism on environmental aesthetics and ethics.   

Part I. Biographical/historical background1.         David Cartwright (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, US)—Schopenhauer’s intellectual biography2.         Wolfgang Mann (tentative) (Columbia University, US)—Plato’s influence3.         Sabine Roehr (New Jersey City University, US)—Kant and Reinhold4.         Elisabeth Millán (DePaul University, Chicago, US)—Schopenhauer and early German RomanticismPart II. Theoretical philosophy5.         Allen Wood (tentative) (Indiana University-Bloomington, US)—Schopenhauer’s transcendental idealist metaphysics6.   Günter Zöller  (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)—Freedom7.         Marco Segala (Università dell’Aquila, Italy)—Schopenhauer and the natural sciencesPart III. Aesthetics & philosophy of art8.         Sandra Shapshay (Indiana University-Bloomington, US)—Philosophy of art9.         Isabel Wünsche (tentative) (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany)—Schopenhauer and painting10.       Diego Cubero Hernandez (University of North Texas, US)—Philosophy of musicPart IV. Ethical and political thought11.       Gudrun von Tevenar (Birkbeck College, London, UK)—Schopenhauer and Kant on the virtue of Menschenliebe (loving-kindness)12.       Colin Marshall (University of Washington, US) —Schopenhauer and contemporary metaethics13.       David Woods (University of Southampton, UK)—Political thoughtPart V. Religion14.       Arati Barua (Deshbandhu College, New Dehlhi, India)—Schopenhauer and Indian thought15.       Robert Wicks (University of Auckland, New Zealand)—Judaism16.       Christopher Janaway (University of Southampton, UK)—Atheism and ChristianityPart VI. Legacy17.       Fred Beiser (Syracuse University, US)—Schopenhauer and later nineteenth-century pessimism18.       Aaron Matz (tentative) (Scripps College, US)—Influence on the nineteenth-century British novel19.       João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)—Schopenhauer and Nietzsche20.       Matthew C. Altman & Cynthia D. Coe (Central Washington University, US) —Schopenhauer and Freud21.       Arnaud François (Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)—Schopenhauer’s French Reception