Schopenhauer and the aesthetic standpoint : philosophy as a practice of the sublime / / Sophia Vasalou

• Autore: Vasalou Sophia
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics; Sublime, The
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction ; Wonder : a starting point -- a category for investigation? -- A riddle and its answer ; The inward turn of philosophy and the metaphysics of the will ; Aesthetic contemplation -- 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 -- Philosophy as : sublime ; Sub specie aeternitatis : philosophy as a practice of the sublime ; An "intoxicating vision" : the philosophical sublime in its context and phenomenology -- Reading Schopenhauer ; Why read Schopenhauer? Philosophical approaches and appraisals ; Argument and expression in Schopenhauer's philosophy ; Re-examining Schopenhauer's pessimism -- 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 -- An ethics of redescent? ; Regaining the open sea : certainty, vulnerability, humility ; Greatness of soul and the quest for the good.
• Sommario/riassunto: With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to the visionary power of Schopenhauer's work. The aim of this book is to place the aesthetic character of Schopenhauer's standpoint at the heart of the way we read his philosophy and the way we answer the question: why read Schopenhauer - and how? Approaching his philosophy as an enactment of the sublime with a longer history in the ancient philosophical tradition, Vasalou provides a fresh way of assessing Schopenhauer's relevance in critical terms. This book will be valuable for students and scholars with an interest in post-Kantian philosophy and ancient ethics.
• Altri titoli varianti: Schopenhauer & the Aesthetic Standpoint
• Titolo autorizzato: Schopenhauer and the aesthetic standpoint
• ISBN: 1-139-89105-7; 1-107-24144-8; 1-107-57025-5; 1-107-25100-1; 1-107-24768-3; 1-107-25017-X; 1-139-16924-6; 1-107-24851-5; 1-107-24934-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967450903321
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