Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2
Short Philosophical Essays

A new translation of the popular philosophical essays that made Schopenhauer famous, including essays on a diverse range of topics.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Adrian Del Caro (Edited and translated by), Christopher Janaway (Edited by)

9780521871853, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 2015

699 pages, 2 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 3.9 cm, 1.14 kg

'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

With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a miscellany of essays addressing themes that complement his work The World as Will and Representation, along with more divergent, speculative pieces. It includes essays on method, logic, the intellect, Kant, pantheism, natural science, religion, education, and language. The present volume offers a new translation, a substantial introduction explaining the context of the essays, and extensive editorial notes on the different published versions of the work. This readable and scholarly edition will be an essential reference for those studying Schopenhauer, the history of philosophy, and nineteenth-century German philosophy.

General 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.

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & philosophy of law [LAB], Education [JN], Anthropology [JHM], History of ideas [JFCX], Religion: general [HRA], Philosophy: logic [HPL], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], Philosophy [HP], Archaeology [HD], Literature & literary studies [D]