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1 online resource (vii, 237 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Wonder: a starting point -- a category for investigation?; Chapter 1 A riddle and its answer; The inward turn of philosophy and the metaphysics of the will; Aesthetic contemplation; Chapter 2 Philosophy as: aesthetic; Confronting the fear of death: Schopenhauer's methods in conflict?; The aesthetic standpoint of philosophy; Inward, outward -- forward through rational argument? The "argument from analogy" revisited; Chapter 3 Philosophy as: sublime. |
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Sub specie aeternitatis: philosophy as a practice of the sublimeAn "intoxicating vision": the philosophical sublime in its context and phenomenology; Chapter 4 Reading Schopenhauer; Why read Schopenhauer? Philosophical approaches and appraisals; Argument and expression in Schopenhauer's philosophy; Re-examining Schopenhauer's pessimism; Chapter 5 From aesthetics to ethics; Engaging Schopenhauer ethically: a leap?; The cosmic viewpoint in context: flights of the soul in ancient philosophy; Greatness of soul: a standpoint and its ethical character; Chapter 6 An ethics of redescent? |
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Regaining the open sea: certainty, vulnerability, humilityGreatness of soul and the quest for the good; Works cited; Index. |
| Summary |
This book offers a new way of approaching Schopenhauer by investigating the links between his philosophical practice and his aesthetics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860. |
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Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Sublime, The.
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Sublime, The. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vasalou, Sophia. Schopenhauer and the aesthetic standpoint. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107024403 (DLC) 2013000438 (OCoLC)826076043 |
| ISBN |
9781107250178 (electronic book) |
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110725017X (electronic book) |
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9781139169240 (electronic book) |
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1139169246 (electronic book) |
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1299707491 (e-book) |
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9781299707498 (e-book) |
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9781107247680 |
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1107247683 |
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9781107024403 |
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1107024404 |
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