Janaway provides a detailed and critical account of Schopenhauer's central philosophical achievement: his account of the self and its relation to the world of objects. The author's approach to this theme is historical, yet is designed to show the philosophical interest of such an approach. He explores in unusual depth Schopenhauer's often ambivalent relation to Kant, and highlights the influence of Schopenhauer's view of self and world on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche, as well as tracing the many points of contact between Schopenhauer's thought and current philosophical debates about the self.

• Introduction


• 1: The Development of Schopenhauer's Philosophy


• 2: Kantian Objects


• 3: Kantian Subjects


• 4: Subject and Object in Schopenhauer


• 5: Idealism


• 6: Materialism


• 7: Knowing the Thing in Itself


• 8: Willing and Acting


• 9: Determinism and Responsibility


• 10: The Primacy of Will


• 11: Freedom from Will


• 12: Self and World


• 13: Remarks on Wittgenstein and Nietzsche


• 14: Conclusions


• Bibliography; Index

Christopher Janaway is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.