Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Note on the Revised Edition -- PART 1 -- 1 Schopenhauer's Life as Background to his Work -- 2 The Ends of Explanation -- 3 The Great Tradition -- 4 More Arguments for Transcendental Idealism -- 5 Objects and Subjects -- 6 Bodies and Wills -- 7 The World as Will -- 8 The Flower of Existence -- 9 Metaphysics of the Person -- 10 Some Criticisms and Problems -- 11 Additions and Omissions -- PART 2 -- 12 Schopenhauer and the Idealists -- 13 Schopenhauer and Later Thinkers -- 14 Schopenhauer's Influence on Wittgenstein -- 15 A Note on Schopenhauer and Buddhism -- 16 Schopenhauer's Addendum on Homosexuality -- 17 Schopenhauer and Wagner -- 18 Schopenhauer's Influence on Creative Writers -- 19 A Conjecture about Dylan Thomas -- 20 Schopenhauer's Reputation in its Changing Historical Context -- 21 Misunderstanding Schopenhauer -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.