Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's EducatorChristopher Janaway This new collection enriches our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher." |
Contents
Schopenhauer as Nietzsches Educator | 13 |
Nietzsches Debt | 37 |
Schopenhauer Nietzsche and the Redemption of Life | 79 |
Nietzsches Use and Abuse of Schopenhauers Moral | 116 |
Temperament | 151 |
Honest Atheism Dishonest | 178 |
Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche | 196 |
The Paradox of Fatalism and SelfCreation in Nietzsche | 217 |
On Schopenhauer 1868 | 258 |
Notes on the Contributors | 279 |
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