Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays Volume 2

General editor's preface
Editorial notes and references
Introduction
Notes on text and translation
Chronology
Bibliography
Parerga and Paralipomena, Volume 2: Sporadic yet systematically ordered thoughts on multifarious topics
1. On philosophy and its method
2. On logic and dialectic
3. Some thoughts concerning the intellect in general and in every respect
4. Some observations on the antithesis of the thing in itself and the appearance
5. Some words on pantheism
6. On philosophy and natural science
7. On colour theory
8. On ethics
9. On jurisprudence and politics
10. On the doctrine of the indestructibility of our true essence by death
11. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the nothingness of existence
12. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the suffering of the world
13. On suicide
14. Additional remarks on the doctrine of the affirmation and negation of the will to life
15. On religion
16. Some remarks on Sanskrit literature
17. Some archaeological observations
18. Some mythological observations
19. On the metaphysics of the beautiful and aesthetics
20. On judgment, criticism, approbation and fame
21. On learning and the learned
22. Thinking for oneself
23. On writing and style
24. On reading and books
25. On language and words
26. Psychological remarks
27. On women
28. On education
29. On physiognomy
30. On noise and sounds
31. Similes, parables and fables
Some verses
Versions of Schopenhauer's text
Glossary of names
Index.

Sabine Roehr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Hubert Fichte: Poetische Erkenntnis. Montage, Synkretismus, Mimesis (1985) and A Primer on German Enlightenment (1995).

Christopher Janaway is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. His most recent books include Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction (2002) and Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007). His most recently edited collections include The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer (Cambridge, 2000) and Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value (2009, co-edited with Alex Neill). He is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer series, for which he has translated The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (2009) and co-translated The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1 (2010).