Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root - Paperback

by Jonathan Head (Editor), Dennis Vanden Auweele (Editor)

This collection of essays is one of the first critical engagements with On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. Chapters by leading Schopenhauer scholars examine the possible interpretations of the principle of rational thought and argue for a new, Kantian-inspired formulation and critical reach of that principle.

Author Biography

Jonathan Head is Teaching Fellow at Keele University, UK. He has recently published papers on Kant's philosophy of religion and various aspects of Schopenhauer's philosophy.

Dennis Vanden Auweele is postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, KU Leuven (University of Leuven) and assistant professor in philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Theology, RUG (University of Groningen). His publications deal mostly with Kant's philosophy of religion, Schopenhauer's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of religion.