Schopenhauer and the Aesthetic Standpoint

With its pessimistic vision and bleak message of world-denial, it has often been difficult to know how to engage with Schopenhauer''s philosophy. Schopenhauer''s arguments have seemed flawed and his doctrines marred by inconsistencies; his very pessimism almost too flamboyant to be believable. Yet a way of redrawing this engagement stands open, Sophia Vasalou argues, if we attend more closely to t...