Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator

by Christopher Janaway (Editor )

This new collection enriches our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. Eight leading scholars contribute specially written essays in which Nietzsche's changing conceptions of pessimism, tragedy, art, morality, truth, knowledge, religion, atheism, determinism, the will, and the self are revealed as responses to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher."

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 1998

About the author

Christopher Janaway (BA, DPhil Oxford) is a philosopher and author. Before moving to Southampton in 2005, Janaway taught at the University of Sydney and Birkbeck, University of London. His recent research has been on Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and aesthetics. Janaway currently lectures at the University of Southampton, including a module focusing on Nietzsche.

Reviews

[Neil Delaney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great collection. Especially enjoyed Leiter's essay on fatalism and self-creation in Nietzsche.

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brian Leiter gets Nietzsche's account of self-creation wrong by reducing it self-mastery. On the upside this gives me the opportunity to get it right. And this, in turn, reminds me of Nietzsche's bittersweet assessment of the whole charade in the Wander and his Shadow 171.