Essays on Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Values and the Will of Life

Christopher Janaway

Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK, and was previously Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. He is general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer, and was principal investigator on the research project 'Nietzsche and Modern Moral Philosophy' funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His publications include Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy, Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy , and the edited collections Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator, The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, and Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and References
Introduction
Part 1. Schopenhauer on the Will
1. The Real Essence of Human Beings: Schopenhauer on the Unconscious Will
2. Necessity, Responsibility and Character: Schopenhauer on Freedom of the Will
3. Schopenhauer on the Aimlessness of the Will
4. What's So Good about Negation of the Will? Schopenhauer and the Problem of the summum bonum
Part 2. Schopenhauer: Being, Not being, and the Individual
5. Beyond the Individual: Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Value of Love
6. Schopenhauer's Consoling View of Death
7. Worse than the best possible pessimism? Olga Plümacher's critique of Schopenhauer
Part 3. Nietzsche Responds to Schopenhauer
8. Schopenhauer's Christian Perspectives
9. On the Very Idea of 'Justifying Suffering'
10. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Affect and Cognition
Part 4. Nietzsche: Suffering, Affirmation, and Art
11. Beauty is False, Truth Ugly: Nietzsche on Art and Life
12. Attitudes to Suffering: Parfit and Nietzsche
13. Nietzsche on Morality, Drives, and Human Greatness
14. Who -or What- says Yes to Life?
Bibliography
Index