Alex Neill & Christopher Janaway 
Better Consciousness 
Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Value

Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Value
reassesses Schopenhauer’s aesthetics and ethics and their
contemporary relevance.

* Features a collection of new essays from leading Schopenhauer
scholars

* Explores a relatively neglected area of Schopenhauer’s
philosophy

* Offers a new perspective on a great thinker who crystallized
the pessimism of the nineteenth century and has many points of
contact with twenty-first century thought

Table of Content

Preface.

1. Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Value (Christopher Janaway, University of Southampton, UK and Alex Neill, University of Southampton, UK).

2. Back to Truth: Knowledge and Pleasure in the Aesthetics of Schopenhauer (Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania, USA).

3. Aesthetic Experience in Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Will (Alex Neill, University of Southampton, UK).

4. Schopenhauer on Aesthetic Understanding and the Values of Art (Bart Vandenabeele, Universiteit Gent, Belgium).

5. Poetic Intuition and the Bounds of Sense: Metaphor and Metonymy in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy (Sandra Shapshay, Indiana University – Bloomington, USA).

6. Life is but a mirror: On the connection between ethics, metaphysics and character in Schopenhauer (Matthias Koßler, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Germany).

7. Knowledge and Selflessness: Schopenhauer and the Paradox of Reflection (Bernard Reginster, Brown University, USA).

8. Natural Beauty and Optimism in Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics (Robert Wicks, University of Auckland, New Zealand).

9. Compassion and Solidarity with Sufferers: The Metaphysics of Mitleid (David E. Cartwright, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater , USA).

10. Schopenhauer’s Politics: Ethics, Jurisprudence and The State (Julian Young, University of Auckland, New Zealand).

11. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Death and Salvation (Neil Jordan, Godalming, UK).

Index.

About the author

Alex Neill is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of
Southampton. His current focus is on the history of
18th- and 19th-century philosophical
aesthetics. He is co-editor (with Aaron Ridley) of The
Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern (1995) and
Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, 3e
(2007).

Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Southampton. His research interests fall chiefly in
the areas of 19th-century German philosophy and
aesthetics. His recent books include Schopenhauer: A Very
Short Introduction (2002), Reading Aesthetics: Selected
Texts with Interactive Commentary (Blackwell, 2005), and
Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche’s Genealogy
(2007).