Weltschmerz : pessimism in German philosophy, 1860-1900

Weltschmerz' is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer, whose philosophy became very fashionable in the 1860s. Frederick C. Beiser examines the intense and long controversy that arose from Schopenhauer's pessimism, which changed the agenda of philosophy in Germany away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life. He examines the major defenders of pessimism (Philipp Mainlander, Eduard von Hartmann and Julius Bahnsen) and its chief critics, especially Eugen Duhring and the neo-Kantians. The pessimism dispute of the second half of the century has been largely ignored in secondary literature and this book is a first attempt since the 1880s to re-examine it and to analyze the important philosophical issues raised by it. The dispute concerned the most fundamental philosophical issue of them all: whether life is worth living

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780198768715 ; 0198768710
• Maße: 24 cm
• Umfang: ix, 301 Seiten
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index

Klassifikation und Themen

• Schlagwort: Geschichte 1860-1900 ; Philosophie ; Weltschmerz ; Pessimismus ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Oxford, New York
• (wer): Oxford University Press
• (wann): [2016]
• Urheber: Beiser, Frederick C.

Weitere Informationen

• Inhaltsverzeichnis: Machine generated contents note: 1. Pessimism as Zeitgeist -- 2. Intellectual Background -- 3. Philosophy and the Meaning of Life -- 4. Pessimism in the History of Philosophy -- 1. The Schopenhauer Legacy -- 1. Schopenhauer's Influence -- 2. The Puzzle of Existence -- 3. Schopenhauer and the Identity Crisis of Philosophy -- 2. Reconstructing Schopenhauer's Metaphysics -- 1. The Problem of Metaphysics -- 2. The Rehabilitation of Metaphysics -- 3. Self-Knowledge of the Will -- 4. Metaphysics of the Will -- 5. Transcendental Idealism? -- 3. Schopenhauer's Pessimism -- 1. The Dangers of Pessimism -- 2. The Modern Silenus -- 3. Arguments for Pessimism -- 4. Life as Suffering -- 4. The Illusion of Redemption -- 1. The False Promise of Deliverance -- 2. Affirming and Denying the Will -- 3. Practical Reason and Redemption -- 4. Paths to Redemption -- 5. Protestantism without Theism -- 5. Julius Frauenstadt: Apostle and Critic -- 1. An Independent Disciple -- 2. Conversion to Schopenhauer -- 3. Schopenhauer and the Materialism Controversy -- 4. Doubts about Pessimism -- 5. Revisions and Corrections -- 6. The Optimism of Eugen Duhring -- 1. A Positivist and Optimist -- 2. Logical Foundations -- 3. Logic of the Question -- 4. Theory of Value -- 5. Reckoning with Schopenhauer -- 6. Death -- 7. The Political and Economic Dimension -- 8. A System of Philosophy -- 9. Replacing Religion -- 7. The Optimistic Pessimism of Eduard von Hartmann -- 1. A Fashionable Pessimist -- 2. The Unconscious -- 3. A New Religion -- 4. First Principles -- 5. Settling Accounts with Hegel -- 6. Foundations of Realism -- 7. Eudemonistic Pessimism -- 8. Evolutionary Optimism -- 8. The Pessimism Controversy, 1870 -- 1890 -- 1. The Eye of the Storm -- 2. Two Classic Objections -- 3. Hartmann versus the Neo-Kantians and Duhring -- 4. Two Female Allies -- 5. The Whip of Cords -- 6. A Hyperontology? -- 7. The Nature of Pleasure -- 8. A Pessimist Counterattack -- 9. The Value of Work -- 10. Aesthetic Redemption -- 11. Love -- 9. Mainlanders Philosophy of Redemption -- 1. The Heroic Pessimist -- 2. Life and Philosophical Education -- 3. The Gospel of Redemption -- 4. Mainlander and the Young Hegelian Tradition -- 5. Philosophical Foundations -- 6. The Death of God -- 7. Ethics -- 8. Theory of the State -- 9. Communism, Patriotism and Free Love -- 10. The Pessimistic Worldview of Julius Bahnsen -- 1. An Original and Powerful Worldview -- 2. The Making of a Pessimist -- 3. The Disciple of Schopenhauer -- 4. Literary Debut -- 5. Foundations of Pessimism -- 6. Hartmann's Review of Bahnsen -- 7. In Defence of Realism -- 8. Philosophy of History -- 9. Hartmann's Offensive Against Bahnsen -- 10. A Tragic Worldview -- 11. Prayers of a Pessimist -- 12. Real Dialectic -- 13. Ethics and Politics -- 14. The Pessimist as Tragic Hero
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