This collection of thirty-one essays encompasses Schopenhauer's central contributions, his influences, and the scope of his impact, especially on the arts and philosophy. Six sections cover the wide range of his thought, including its connection to religion, ethics, and art, as well as his influence and legacy.

• Introduction - Robert Wicks


• PART I Biographical Context and Philosophical Influences


• 1. Schopenhauer's Intellectual Relationship with Goethe: An Ambivalent Affinity


• Adrian Del Caro


• 2. Karl Christian Friedrich Krause's Influence on Schopenhauer's Philosophy


• Benedikt Paul Göcke


• 3. Schopenhauer's Understanding of Schelling


• Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman


• 4. Fichte and Schopenhauer on Knowledge, Ethics, Right, and Religion


• Yolanda Estes


• 5. Schopenhauer and the Orient


• Urs App


• PART II Metaphysics of Will and Empirical Knowledge


• 6. The Enduring Kantian Presence in Schopenhauer's Philosophy


• Sandra Shapshay


• 7. Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World


• Ivan Soll


• 8. Force in Nature - Schopenhauer's Scientific Beginning


• D. G. Carus


• 9. Schopenhauer and Hume on Will and Causation


• Severin Schroeder


• 10. Schopenhauer's Haunted World: The Use of Weird and Paranormal Phenomena to Corroborate His Metaphysics


• David Cartwright


• 11. The Mystery of Freedom


• Pilar López de Santa María


• PART III Aesthetic Experience, Music, and the Sublime


• 12. Classical Beauty and the Expression of Personal Character in Schopenhauer's Aesthetics


• Robert Wicks


• 13. The Genius and the Metaphysics of the Beautiful


• Maria Lucia Mello Oliveira Cacciola


• 14. Schopenhauer and the Paradox of the Sublime


• Bart Vandenabeele


• 15. Schopenhauer and the Metaphysics of Music


• Paul Gordon


• PART IV HUMAN MEANING, POLITICS, AND MORALITY


• 16. The Moral Meaning of the World


• Christopher Janaway


• 17. Schopenhauer's Pessimism in Context


• Mark Migotti


• 18. Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy: Responding to Senselessness


• Robert Guay


• 19. Schopenhauer on Law and Justice


• Raymond B. Marcin


• 20. Schopenhauer, Buddhism, and Compassion


• Richard Reilly


• 21. Schopenhauer and Confucian Thinkers on Compassion


• Douglas Berger


• PART V RELIGION AND SCHOPENHAUER'S PHILOSOPHY


• 22. Schopenhauer and the Diamond-Sutra


• Christopher Ryan


• 23. Schopenhauer and Hindu Thought


• R. Raj Singh


• 24. Schopenhauer and Christianity


• Gerard Mannion


• 25. The Inscrutable Riddle of Schopenhauer Relations to Jews and to Judaism


• Jacob Golomb


• PART VI Schopenhauer's Influence


• 26. Post-Schopenhauerian Metaphysics: Hartmann, Mainländer, Bahnsen, and Nietzsche


• Sebastian Gardner


• 27. Nietzsche's Schopenhauer


• Tom Stern


• 28. Schopenhauer and the Unconscious


• Stephan Atzert


• 29. Schopenhauer's Influence on Wagner


• Kevin C. Karnes and Andrew J. Mitchell


• 30. Schopenhauer's Fin de Siècle Reception in Austria


• Paul Bishop


• 31. The Next Metaphysical Mutation: Schopenhauer as Michel Houellebecq's Educator


• Christopher A. Howard

Robert Wicks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His publications, which include ten books and many articles, range over 19th century European philosophy, Kant, existentialism, aesthetics, and Asian philosophy.