TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vasalou,Sophia
TI  - Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint: Philosophy as a Practice of the Sublime 
SN  - 9781139169240 (ebook)
AV  - B3148 .V37 2013
U1  - 193 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Sublime, The
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer's philosophy. Schopenhauer's arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to the visionary power of Schopenhauer's work. The aim of this book is to place the aesthetic character of Schopenhauer's standpoint at the heart of the way we read his philosophy and the way we answer the question: why read Schopenhauer - and how? Approaching his philosophy as an enactment of the sublime with a longer history in the ancient philosophical tradition, Vasalou provides a fresh way of assessing Schopenhauer's relevance in critical terms. This book will be valuable for students and scholars with an interest in post-Kantian philosophy and ancient ethics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139169240
ER  -