Schopenhauer on Self, World and Morality - by Arati Barua (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Includes contributions from Schopenhauer experts across the world

Focuses on a less read area of Schopenhauer's deep and abiding interest in the Upanishads and Indic philosophy

Provides insights about the influence of Indic philosophical texts on Schopenhauer, and about his influence on modern Indian philosophers

From the Back Cover

This volume is a unique collection of philosophical essays on various aspects of Schopenhauer's understanding of the nature and character of the world through the classical philosophies of the Vedanta and Buddhism and classical and modern thinkers like Bhartṛhari, Tagore, and Wittgenstein. It includes reflective insights about Schopenhauer and the metaphysics of the world, the self, and morality from scholars who have pioneered the philosophical study of the relation between Schopenhauer and Indian schools of thoughts and intellectual history. This insightful volume is a good academic resource for further research in comparative philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Indian tradition.
Praise for the Volume
Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the World Will stands out in the history of Western Philosophy as having the deepest affinity to Indian philosophical tradition. [The] contributions of this ... volume ... shed new light on this affinity and identify its roots in a shared morality of solidarity and compassion. Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Birnbacher, Institut für Philosophie Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
This rich and varied volume places Schopenhauer's thinking against the Asian and especially Indian background which he himself identified as the source of inspiration for much of his philosophy of the world and the self as will and representation. Prof. Dr. Günter Zöller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Munich

About the Author

Arati Barua is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, and the Founder Director of the Indian division of the Schopenhauer Society (IDSS), under the International Schopenhauer Society in Germany. Besides being a member of various academic societies such as the Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, Germany, North American division of Schopenhauer Society (NADSS), USA and Indian Association for Canadian Studies (IACS), India, she is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Schopenhauer Jahrbuch, Germany. She was awarded a Faculty Research Fellowship by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) to work on her project, "George Grant and M. K. Gandhi on technology and modernism", at the university of Guelph, Ontario. In 2006, she was awarded a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) fellowship by the German Research Foundation, Germany for her project on "Sankara and Schopenhauer: A comparative study", to work at the Schopenhauer Research Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. She has published several books on Schopenhauer, and was recently conferred the prestigious national award "Bharat Excellence 2016", by the Friendship Forum of India (FFI) at New Delhi in recognition of excellence in her field of activity and enhancing the image of India. Dr Barua has also been awarded with "Bharat Jyoti Award 2015" and "Best Citizens of India 2015" by different institutions in India.