Schopenhauer's Encounter with Indian Thought: Representation and Will and Their Indian Parallels 9780824839086

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Schopenhauer in Context: The “Oriental Renaissance”
Chapter Three: Schopenhauer’s Indian Sources: Hinduism
Chapter Four: Schopenhauer’s Indian Sources: Buddhism
Chapter Five “Representation”: Schopenhauer and the Reality-Status of the World
Chapter Six: The Reality-Status of the Empirical World: The Mādhyamika Teaching
Chapter Seven: Advaita Vedānta: The World as Illusory Appearance
Chapter Eight: Conclusions: Schopenhauer’s Representation and Its Indian Affinities
Chapter Nine: Schopenhauer’s Conception of the World as Will
Chapter Ten: Schopenhauer: The Will in Its General Forms (Ideas)
Chapter Eleven: Metaphysical Factors behind the Empirical World: Advaita Vedānta
Chapter Twelve: The Arising of the Empirical World in Buddhism: The Yogācāra Teaching
Chapter Thirteen: Conclusions: Schopenhauer’s Will and Comparable Indian Ideas
Chapter Fourteen: The Ontological Status of Will
Chapter Fifteen: Beyond the Will: “Better Consciousness” and the “Pure Subject of Knowing”
Chapter Sixteen: The Hidden Compass: Schopenhauer and the Limits of Philosophy
Chapter Seventeen: Schopenhauer and Indian Thought
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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