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.
- Provides a new, up-to-date translation of this historically important collection of essays
- The first English edition to be translated and edited by specialists in philosophy and German studies, and to give thorough scholarly notes on the differences between editions
- Includes a scholarly introduction outlining the context of the works and a guide to reading them
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'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

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Product details
- Date Published: October 2015
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521871853
- length: 699 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 39 mm
- weight: 1.14kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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Author
Arthur Schopenhauer
Editor
Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton
Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His most recent books include Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002) and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007). His most recently edited collections include The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge, 2000) and Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (co-edited with Alex Neill, 2009). He is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer series, for which he has translated The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Cambridge, 2009) and co-translated three other volumes.
Editor and Translator
Adrian Del Caro, University of Tennessee
Adrian Del Caro is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Head of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee. He has published many books, including The Early Poetry of Paul Celan: In the Beginning Was the Word (1997) and Grounding the Nietzsche Rhetoric of Earth (2004). He has published numerous articles in journals including Journal of the History of Ideas, Philosophy and Literature, and German Studies Review. His translations include poetry for The German Mind of the Nineteenth Century (edited by Hermann Glaser, 1981) and The Gay Science (edited by Bernard Williams, Cambridge, 2001).