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By Robert Solomon, David Sherman

The Blackwell advisor to Continental Philosophy is an obtainable yet refined creation to an important figures in continental philosophy long ago 2 hundred years.

The newly-commissioned essays that include this e-book replicate the big range of authors, matters, and kinds encompassed via the continental culture. even if the chapters stand all alone as entire overviews of every topic, additionally they demonstrate how the thinkers provided during this quantity are interconnected. They aspect the ways that those philosophers prompted each other or even discover a few nasty rivalries. one of the figures and issues addressed are Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl and phenomenology, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, severe idea, Habermas, Gadamer, Foucault, Derrida, postmodernism, and French feminism.

This booklet is a priceless source for a person with an curiosity in continental philosophy.

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237, 240, 429. Bernstein (1984), p. 14. Düttmann (2000), p. 191. Hegel (1977), pp. 111–12. Translation emended. Williams (1992), p. 155. Hegel (1977), p. 113 (§186). Kojève (1980), pp. 4–5; Redding (1991), p. 182; Hegel (1977), pp. 113–14 (§§186–7). Solomon (1983), p. 450. Rockmore (1997), p. 69; Hegel (1977), p. 115 (§189). Hegel (1977), p. 115 (§190). Hegel (1977), p. 116 (§190). Hegel (1977), p. 118 (§195). Hegel (1977), p. 116 (§191). Loewenberg (1965), p. 88. Hegel (1977), p. 117 (§193); Hyppolite (1974), p.

What are we? In a word, Schopenhauer says “will” – the will to live, to expand ourselves, to preserve ourselves, to appropriate things, to forestall our own deterioration and dissolution, to keep ourselves intact, and to multiply. Our inner life shows itself to be involved in incessant striving to acquire what we need to continue to go on, and then to acquire ever more in order to augment our dominion. 34 Noël Carroll Reflecting on the only specimen of the world in itself to which we have access – namely ourselves – Schopenhauer invites us to conjecture that the world in itself is will: the will to be, the will to life, the will to self-preservation and expansion, a sort of cosmic life force, which, moreover, is indivisible, since it is not susceptible to the principle of sufficient reason (which accounts for the division of things into separate entities).

He writes: Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is, indeed as the Ideas are, the multiplied phenomenon of which constitutes the world of individual things. Therefore music is by no means like the other arts, namely a copy of the Ideas, but a copy of the will itself, the objectivity of which are the Ideas. For this reason the effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of any of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadows, but music of the essence.

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