The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook

1. Introduction
Sandra Shapshay

Part I. The Development of Schopenhauer’s System

2. Becoming the Author of World as Will and Representation: Schopenhauer’s Life and Education 1788–1818
David E. Cartwright

3. How Platonic Are Schopenhauer’s Platonic Ideas?
Wolfgang-Rainer Mann

4. Schopenhauer’s System of Freedom
Günter Zöller

5. Inspiration from India
Martina Kurbel

Part II. Epistemology and Metaphysics

6. A Dream Within a Dream: Idealism and Pessimism in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy
Douglas McDermid

7. Schopenhauer’s Two Metaphysics: Transcendental and Transcendent
Alistair Welchman

8. Metaphysics and the Sciences in Schopenhauer
Marco Segala

Part III. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

9. Aesthetic Humanism: Poetry’s Role in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel and Schopenhauer
Elizabeth Millán

10. Music and Pessimism
Judith Norman

11. Schopenhauer, Schenker, and the Will of Music

Diego Cubero

Part IV. Ethical and Political Thought

12. Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics
Colin Marshall

13. Schopenhauer and Kant on Menschenliebe

Gudrun Tevenar

14. Schopenhauer on the Moral Considerability of Animals: Toward a Less Anthropocentric Ethics
Sandra Shapshay

15. Schopenhauer on the State and Morality

David Woods

Part V. Religion

16. Schopenhauer and Judaism
Robert Wicks

17. Schopenhauer’s Christian Perspectives
Christopher Janaway

18. Schopenhauer and Gotama on Life’s Suffering
Christopher Ryan

Part VI. Legacy

19. Schopenhauer and British Literary Feminism
S. Pearl Brilmyer

20. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer: On Nihilism
and the Ascetic “Will to Nothingness”
João Constâncio

21. Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism
in Schopenhauer and Freud
Matthew C. Altman, Cynthia D. Coe

22. Schopenhauer’s French Reception
Arnaud François

23. Grappling with German Atheism
and Pessimism
: The Reception of Schopenhauer in the USA
Christa Buschendorf

24. Conclusion
Sandra Shapshay

Keywords: Philosophy, German Idealism, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, Epistemology