Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A note on texts and terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Schopenhauer's life and times -- 1. Schopenhauer's idealism -- 2. Empirical knowledge of the world as representation: from natural science to transcendental metaphysics -- 3. Willing and the world as Will -- 4. Suffering, salvation, death and renunciation of the will to life -- 5. Art and aesthetics of the beautiful and sublime -- 6. Transcendental freedom of Will -- 7. Compassion as the philosophical foundation of morality -- 8. Schopenhauer's legacy in the philosophy of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the early Wittgenstein -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- Index.