This comprehensive Handbook offers a leading-edge yet accessible guide to the most important facets of Arthur Schopenhauer¿s philosophical system, the last true system of German philosophy. Written by a diverse, international and interdisciplinary group of eminent and up-and-coming scholars, each of the 28 chapters in this Handbook includes an authoritative exposition of different viewpoints as well as arguing for a particular thesis. Authors also put Schopenhauer¿s ideas into historical context and connect them when possible to contemporary philosophy. Key features: Structured in six parts, addressing the development of Schopenhauer¿s system, his epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics and philosophy of art, ethical and political thought, philosophy of religion