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

This book brings together fourteen essays by Christopher Janaway on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. They illuminate central philosophical issues in the work of these thinkers - the death of God, the meaning of existence, suffering, compassion, the will, Christian values, the affirmation or negation of life.