Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering A Comparative Analysis
Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering explores how the works of both philosophers revolve around an entwinement of pessimism and optimism, which links statements regarding the wrongness of the world to analyses of the human capability to experience
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Schopenhauer and Adorno on Bodily Suffering A Comparative Analysis Mathijs Peters ‘Postwachstumskolleg’, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
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To my parents, Adri and Hanneke In memory of Mohammed Kader Majid
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Contents Preface
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List of Abbreviations
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Introduction In the Penal Colony Arthur Schopenhauer and Theodor W. Adorno Why a comparative analysis? Critical preliminaries Structure
Part I
Determinism, Rationality, Embodiment
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A Paradox of Transcendence and Immanence Introduction The world-as-representation Idealism and naturalism The truth moment of Schopenhauer’s epistemology Conclusion
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The World-as-Will Introduction A key to the world Metaphysical extrapolation Critics of Schopenhauer’s metaphysics Compassion and Wi
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