Index
Note: Schopenhauer’s works are indexed under their English titles.
Anglophilia, 40
anti-historicism,
aristocracy, 26, , ,
Atwell, John, 3
Auweele, Dennis Vanden, 247
Bardua, Caroline, 129
Bauer, Bruno, ,
Bauer, Georg Lorenz, 184
Bayrhoffer, Karl Theodor, 172
Becker, Johann August, 35
Bertuch, Friedrich Justin, 129
Blackwell Companion to Schopenhauer, 3
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 36
Blumenberg, Hans, 105
Bonn, 31
book market, 33
boredom,
bourgeoisie (Bürgertum),
and civic honor, 121
and feudal honor, 123
Marx’s critique of,
philosophy of,
property-owning (Besitzbürgertum), 41
sociability and,
values of,
Brentano, Bettina, 130
Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold, 32
Bund (German confederation), 37
Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, 228
Calhoun, John C., 233
Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer, 3
Carey, Henry Charles, 52
Cartwright, David E., 3
censorship,
Chamfort, Nicolas, 146
China, 221,
class, 24, ,
aristocracy/nobility, 26, , ,
bourgeoisie (Bürgertum),
and civic honor, 121
and feudal honor, 123
Marx’s critique of,
philosophy of,
property-owning (Besitzbürgertum), 41
sociability and,
values of,
elites, 41
proletariat/working class, , 235
suffering and, 138
collaboration, , 205
color theory, 134
communism,
community, 15, 246, 252
ethical, 208
of free individuals, 83
gods as ideals of, 184
human plurality and, 136,
nations as,
of non-egoists, 87
self-determining,
shame and, 209
conceptuality,
Confucianism, 238
consumption, 229
conversation
facilitation of, 130
Schopenhauer’s style of,
sociable, criticism of, 135
spontaneous, 135
Curtius, Quintus,
Damm, Oskar, 5
Daub, Karl, 183
democracy,
metaphysical, 251
Dewald, Jonathan, 120
Dews, Peter, 247
Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 82
difference,
Diogenes Laertius, 152
dishonesty, 46
Doß, Adam von, 35
dueling, 123
Economist, The (magazine), 30
economy of thought,
egoism, 7, , , 114
China and, 237
compassion, transcended by, 208
and economics, 52
law, codified by, 194
Marx’s theories of,
moral behavior and,
others, (un)reality of, 148
politeness, concealed by, 121
‘realist’ model of, 192
slavery and, 229
sociability and, 139
Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 184
Eppes, Richard, 233
equanimity,
Erlangen, 185
Falk, Johannes Daniel, 129
Fernow, Carl Ludwig, 129
Feuerbach, Ludwig, , 188, 191
on church and state,
on egoism,
The Essence of Christianity, 87,
Schopenhauer on, 87,
on secularism, 58
as Young Hegelian,
Fichte, Immanuel Hermann, 4
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 38, 71, 92, 203
on doctrine of right, 83
on religion, 174
Schopenhauer on, 186
Fitzhugh, George, 233
Förster, Friedrich, 171
Forster, Thomas, 222
Fourfold Root of Reason, The, 238
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography, 42
Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia, 175
frugality, 32,
Gabler, Johann Philipp, 184
Gardner, Sebastian, 248
Garve, Christian, 35
Gehlen, Arnold, 48
Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 35
genius, 178, 231, 252
exceptionality of, 206
inherited wealth, dependence on, 38
moral, 44
vs. philistine, 178
vs. prudence, 108,
Schopenhauer’s definition of,
vs. statesman, 113
Gentz, Friedrich, 56
German language,
Germany, 207
Bonn, 31
Bund (German confederation), 37
Erlangen, 185
Göttingen, 23
literature of,
Prussia,
Vormärz period, 182
Weimar, 23,
Gerstenbergk, Müller von, 133
Gillespie, Michael, 248
Goethe, Christiane von (formerly Vulpius), 131
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 23
Arthur Schopenhauer, relationship with,
Johanna Schopenhauer, relationship with,
Theory of Colors, 134
Göttingen, 23
Gracián, Baltasar, 10, 110, 118, 120, 122
El Criticón, 105
The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence, , 112
Grimm, Jacob, 203
happiness, 111
Hebbel, Christian Friedrich, 133
Hegel, Georg, 10, 37, 92, 215
The Phenomenology of Spirit, 168
decline of, , ,
influence and dominance of,
political utility of, 180
Schopenhauer’s critique of, , ,
philistinism,
religion in,
state, apotheosis of,
will to dominance in,
on the state,
Heine, Henrich, The Romantic School, 189
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 205
Herz, Henriette, 135
hierarchies
duty and, 164
in early modern state, 120
inevitability of, 234
intellectual, , , , 251
literary,
monarchical, 234
rule based on, 225
sociability and, ,
social, , 251
history and historiography,
Horkheimer, Max, 204
Hübscher, Arthur, 133
Humboldt, Caroline von, 130
“Iconoclasm in German Philosophy”, 11
idealism, 55
individualism,
individuals, . See also egoism
consciousness of, 210
freedom of,
labor of,
moral growth of,
religion and, 193
responsibilities of, 121
state control of, 81
variety of, 147
will and, 44
inegalitarianism,
Kant, Immanuel, 10, 42, 92, 203
Critique of Pure Reason, 187
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, , 161
Korff, H. A., 134
Körner, Theodor, 203
La Bruyère, Jean de, 110
law
aristocracy’s challenge to, 51
definitions of, 163
egoism, codified by, 194
morality, separation from,
prison system, 222
and property rights,
in republics, 226
slavery systematized by,
universal, 162
legitimacy
of property,
Lewald, Ernst Anton, 36
Lewis, Peter B., 3
liberalism, 11,
libertarianism, 249
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 35
Lichtenstein, Martin Heinrich, 36
lies, 46
Lincoln, Abraham, 232
Lindner, Ernst Otto, 4
Lipsius, Justus, 120
literature, national,
Locke, John, , 163
Lohenstein, Daniel Casper von, 105
Löher, Franz, 221
loneliness, ,
Losurdo, Domenico, 235
Luden, Heinrich, 209
Lütkehaus, Ludger, 49
luxury, 229
majority, power of,
Mandeville, Bernard, 53
Marcin, Raymond B., 3
Marxism, 6
Maxwell, Archibald Montgomery, 221
Mendelssohn, Moses, 135
meritocracy,
Meyer, Heinrich, 129
misanthropy, 152
misogyny, , 250
monarchies
expedient vs. divinely appointed, 87
intellectual elites, fostered in,
legitimacy, political, 224
“naturalness” of,
vs. republicanism, 221
monism, 44
Montesquieu, Robert de, 238
morality
advancement of,
of business and businesspeople, , 47
individual, 83
Kantian,
legal basis of, , 163
political theories of,
prudence and, , 118
religions’ effect on, 165
selflessness and, 83
sociability and, 131
supranational quality of,
Münkler, Herfried, 45
mutuality, , 205
Napoleonic wars, ,
national literature,
nationalism, , 150
cultural/literary,
egalitarian, 206
historiography and,
intellectual inequality and,
snobbishness of,
naturalness
lack of,
of monarchies,
Nibelungenlied, 216
Niebuhr, Bartold Georg, 48
Nieuhof, Jean, 237
nobility (class), 26, , ,
non-contradiction,
Novalis (Georg von Hardenberg), 10
Oakeshott, Michael, 84
Oestreich, Gerhard, 120
“On University Philosophy”, 174
On Will in Nature, , 181,
Osann, Friedrich, 172
Osterhammel, Jürgen, 238
Parerga and Paralipomena, 10, 30, 39,
on boredom, 138,
on China, 237
on civilization, 81
on communism, 190
on concealment of will, 110
on education, 91
on Hegelianism, 172
on honor,
on intellectual elites, 251
on nationality, 205,
on philosophy of right, 224
on politeness, 110
political content in,
on popular sovereignty, 56
on reason, 246
on republicanism, , 234
on self-mastery, 124
on slavery, , 232
on sociability,
on university philosophy, 91
on war,
patriotism,
philistinism, , 217
philosophy
Hegelianism, perceived dominance of,
protection, incompatible with freedom of,
sociability and, 144
university, , ,
war of all against all in, 74
Pinkard, Terry, 39
plurality, human,
politics. See also legitimacy; nationalism; republicanism; rulers
communism,
definitions of, , ,
democracy,
despotism, 189,
failures of,
liberalism, 11,
libertarianism, 249
limitations of,
Marxism, 6
metaphysics and, 160
pragmatic, 10
progressivism, 11,
as rationalization,
Popper, Karl, 175
porcupines, parable of, 153
poverty, , 54
Prize Essay on the Basis of Morals
on China, 238
on compassion, , 208
on conceptuality, 79
on egoism, 121
on Fichte, 186
on German language, 215
on Kant, 160,
on property rights, 44
on prudence, 119
on religion, 85
on slavery, 228
on the US, 222
Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will,
progressivism, 11,
proletariat, , 235
protection
mutual, 205
philosophical freedom, incompatibility with,
religion and,
state as instrument of,
prudence, 13, 43, 252
conversational, , 106
vs. genius,
Kant’s definition of,
lack of, 116
vs. morality, , 118
politeness as, ,
political,
private (Privatklugheit), 111
as reserve/reticence, 112
Schopenhauer’s theory of,
as self-mastery, 106, ,
of the state,
as understanding of human behavior,
worldly (Weltklugheit), , 111
Prussia,
Prussian Yearbooks [Preußische Jahrbücher] (journal), 5
rationality, , 103, 159
critique of,
German Idealism and, 179
political,
of state,
US Constitution and,
reciprocity, , 205
religion. See also church; gods
absolute, 175
authority, critique of, 185
China and,
Confucianism, 238
de-Christianization, 195
Kant’s moral philosophy, influence on,
monotheistic, 75
protection and,
and slavery, 228
social function of,
university philosophy and state rule, unity with,
and war, 75
republicanism, , 30, 188, , 223,
anarchy, tendency towards,
authority in, 226
legitimacy, political,
slavery as corrolary of,
unnaturalness of,
violence and, 225
reputation, individual,
right
pure system of, in US Constitution,
Rossini, Gioachino, 133
Rößler, Constantin, 5
Rotteck, Karl von, 210
Rühs, Friedrich, 203
Safranski, Rüdiger, 31
salons, , 135
Schlegel, Friedrich, 136
Schmidt, Alfred, 186
Schmitt, Carl,
Schopenhauer, Adele, 31
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 203. See also titles of individual works
class, ,
death, 230
financial position,
in Frankfurt,
income and wealth,
marriage, aversion to, 32
patriotism, lack of,
political isolation of,
political thought, scholarship on,
posthumous reputation,
reception,
as rentier, , 39
Toulon shipyard, visit to, 1
(un)sociability,
will, 94
writing career,
Schopenhauer, Johanna, 1, 23, , 50
death, 133
financial problems,
Gabriele, 33
literary career, 28,
A Trip through Southern France [Reise durch das südliche Frankreich], 1
Schulze, Johannes, 171
Schütze, Stephan,
secularism, 183
selfhood,
self-mastery, 106, ,
Shklar, Judith, 249
Sichelschmidt, Gustav, 33
Smith, Adam,
sociability,
benefits of, 130
boredom, driven by,
and class,
commonalities in, , 150
criticism of, ,
definition of, 139
as degradation,
dissonant/harmonious, 151
emptiness of,
and human plurality,
mitigating models of,
Romantic theories of, , 139
salons, , 135
suffering, relation to,
Spinoza, Baruch, 78
Stahl, Friedrich Julius, , 181
state
absolutist early modern,
apotheosis of,
aristocracy, challenge to authority of, 51
collective, fragmented by,
construction of, 45
contractual,
domination, basis for, 220
feudal,
freedom facilitated by,
individualized will and, 246
individuals, control of, 81
as instrument of protection,
limitations of,
masses, control of,
minimalized,
morality and,
nation-state, 204,
and property rights, , 50,
prudent self-government, supplemented by,
rationality of, , 165
spiritual value of,
suffering and, 49
tutelary, 189
statecraft, 102
statesman
definition of,
intelligence of,
prudence of,
Stoicism, , 120
stupidity, 109
subjugation, 230
suffering, 7
boredom,
comfort of minority achieved through, 53
dissatisfaction, persistent, 137
human conflict caused by,
inevitable, , 49
meaning bestowed on, 89
mitigation of, ,
politics, perpetuated by, 248
poverty and, 49
prudence, perpetuated by,
religion and,
Schopenhauer’s experience of,
slavery as form of,
sociability, relation to, , 152
war of all against all and, 76
Taoism, 238
Thomasius, Christian, 105
Tieck, Ludwig, 178
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 226
Toews, John, 171
Tribe, Keith, 53
truth, 38
Tucker, Josiah, 232
Two Fundamental Problems of Morality, 172
university philosophy, , ,
Varnhagen, Rahel, 135
Veit, Dorothea, 135
Vormärz period, 182
Vulpius, Christian August, 23
war of all against all, 7, 12,
bourgeois society, product of,
and Hegelianism,
mitigation of, , , 139
monarchism, defense against, 189
politics, rationalized by,
will vs. representation, emerging from, , 248
Weimar, 23,
Wieland, Christoph Martin, 23
will, 7,
collective,
domination by, 231
fragmented, 44, 179
as metaphysical democracy, 251
through perception,
politics, limited response to, 247
reconciliation of, 177
national, refusal of, 211
prudence and, 103
reason, relationship with, 248
self-organization, in politics, 248
state, restrained by, 79
of statesman, 114
unitary, 43,
worldy aims of, 107
Witte, Karl, 133
Wolin, Sheldon, 118
Woods, David, 83
working class, , 235
World as Will and Representation, The,
on asceticism, 77
on beards, 110
on boredom and sociability,
on China, 238
on contracts,
on German language, 214
on German literature,
on historiography,
individuals, definition of,
inspirations for, 203
on legitimate rule, 236
on metaphysical need, 88
on monarchy, 220
on prudence,
political content in, 71
on primacy of willing, 108
progress, criticism of, 52
on the proletariat, 50
on property rights, 44
on prudence, 107,
on rationality, 79
on security, 194
on slavery,
on socialism, 59
on Stoicism, 103
on suffering, 74
on the US, 222
on war,
on war of all against all, 7
on will vs. intellect, 142
worldliness, ,
prudence and, , 111
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