Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering [electronic resource] : A Comparative Analysis /
Peters, M.author.
Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents; 1 Introduction; In the Penal Colony; Arthur Schopenhauer and Theodor W. Adorno; Why a comparative analysis?; Critical preliminaries; Structure; Part I Determinism, Rationality, Embodiment; 2 A Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence; Introduction; The world-as-representation; Idealism and naturalism; The truth moment of Schopenhauer's epistemology; Conclusion; 3 The World-as-Will; Introduction; A key to the world; Metaphysical extrapolation; Critics of Schopenhauer's metaphysics; Compassion and Will; Conclusion
4 Irrationalism and PessimismIntroduction; Ontological irrationalism; Epistemological irrationalism; Rationality as autonomy; Egotism and the state; Conclusion; 5 The Whole Is the Wrong; Introduction; The bear's teeth; Instrumental reason; Commodification and second nature; The modern self; Coldness and the principium individuationis; Conclusion; 6 The Twitching of the Hand; Introduction; Critical self-reflection; The addendum and freedom; Conclusion; Part II Morality, Salvation, Happiness; 7 Neminem Laede - Injure No One; Introduction; Practical reason and Will; Compassion and suffering
The normativity of painInjure no one; The weakness of compassion; Conclusion; 8 Being a Good Animal; Introduction; Life does not live; Kant's practical philosophy; Self-critique and the moral addendum; Pain; A new categorical imperative; Conclusion; 9 The Road to Salvation; Introduction; Eternal peace; Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory; Compassion and self-denial; The antagonism of the will with itself; Three interpretations; Conclusion; 10 Rien Faire Comme une Bête; Introduction; The possibility of metaphysics; Happiness and peace; A stratum of mute reference to what is beautiful
Social changeConclusion; 11 Conclusion; An animal showing a wound; Fallibility and hope; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience compassion with bodily suffering and to the redeeming qualities of the arts.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
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Philosophy.
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Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
History of Philosophy.
Critical Theory.