num_pages: 240
description: The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , demonstrating that the philosophical system it puts forth does constitute a consistent whole. The author holds that this system is centered on a single thought, "The world is self-knowledge of the will." He then traces this unifying concept through the four books of The World as Will and Representation , and, in the process, dissolves the work's alleged inconsistencies.
language: English
title: Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will
titlecomplete: Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: The Metaphysics of Will
ratings_count: 2
publisher: University of California Press