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Arthur Schopenhauer, Author Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Description Part of the “Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy,” this first volume of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Presentation is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful for undergraduates.
Each work in the Longman Library is priced so that a number of works can be assigned in the same course, and/or bundled with a text or anthology. |
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Table Of Contents PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION BY MATTHIAS KOSSLER vii
TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION xi Die Welt ist meine Vorstellung xii Principle of Sufficient Ground and Principium Individuationis xvi Der Wille xxvi The Aufhebung of Will xxix The Text xxxix Other Translations and Main Aims of the Present xlvi Selective Notes on the Translation of Some Terms l Selective Bibliography lii Acknowledgments lvi
THE WORLD AS WILL AND PRESENTATION VOLUME ONE Schopenhauer’s Table of Contents Expanded 3 Preface to the First Edition (1818) 9 Preface to the Second Edition (1844) 17 Preface to the Third Edition (1859) 29
FIRST BOOK The World as Presentation: First Consideration Presentation as Subject to the Principle of Sufficient Ground: The Object of Experience and Science 31
SECOND BOOK The World as Will: First Consideration The Objectification of Will 131
THIRD BOOK The World as Presentation: Second Consideration Presentation Independent of the Principle of Sufficient Ground The Platonic Idea: The Object of Art 211
FOURTH BOOK The World as Will: Second Consideration With the Achievement of Self-Cognizance Affirmation and Denial of the Will for Life 321
APPENDIX Critique of Kantian Philosophy 480
TRANSLATOR’S APPENDIX Diagrams for Book One § 9 619
ENDNOTES 623
INDEX 659
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Features A General Introduction to Volume I of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Presentation includes discussion of both conceptual issues and issues regarding translation, and a useful bibliography. Footnotes and endnotes comment on questions of translation and interpretation of passages, provide details about Schopenhauer’s citations, and provide details regarding the differences between the three editions of the work as published by Schopenhauer himself. An Expanded Table of Contents indicates the content of the work’s 71 sections, simply numbered by Schopenhauer himself; this is complemented by corresponding section headings added internally to the work. An extensive index. Pagination of the original German edition (3rd) provided in the margins. |