Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Chronology of Schopenhauer's Life and Works
- 1 The Affirmation of the Will
- 2 A Tour for a Trade
- 3 A Father's Death; A Philosopher's Birth
- 4 The University Years
- 5 The Better Consciousness, Causes, Grounds, and Confrontations
- 6 Goethe, Colors, and Eastern Lights
- 7 The Single Thought of Dresden
- 8 Failure in Berlin
- 9 Ich Bin Kein Berliner
- 10 The Frankfurt Philosopher
- 11 The Dawn of Fame and the End of Life
- Works Cited
- Index
4 - The University Years
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Chronology of Schopenhauer's Life and Works
- 1 The Affirmation of the Will
- 2 A Tour for a Trade
- 3 A Father's Death; A Philosopher's Birth
- 4 The University Years
- 5 The Better Consciousness, Causes, Grounds, and Confrontations
- 6 Goethe, Colors, and Eastern Lights
- 7 The Single Thought of Dresden
- 8 Failure in Berlin
- 9 Ich Bin Kein Berliner
- 10 The Frankfurt Philosopher
- 11 The Dawn of Fame and the End of Life
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Schopenhauer matriculated as a student of medicine at the University of Göttingen on 9 October 1809. He left behind no record of his reason for going to Göttingen. At first blush, the nearby University of Jena would have appeared to be a natural choice. Goethe oversaw the university and took a lively role in its development. By the turn of the nineteenth century, it was the axis around which German intellectual life revolved, and it was peopled with a cadre of influential writers, poets, and philosophers such as had never before been witnessed in Germany. Goethe induced Schiller to teach there in 1787, and he taught there until he moved to Weimar in 1793. It became the foremost center for Kant's philosophy, eclipsing even Kant's home institution at Königsberg. Christian Gottfried Schütz began lecturing on Kant's philosophy as early as 1784 – Kant's Critique of Pure Reason appeared in 1781 – and Schütz founded the most important vehicle for the dissemination and discussion of Kantian philosophy, the journal Allgemeine Litteratur Zeitung. The great popularizer and proponent of Kant's philosophy, Carl Leonhard Reinhold, arrived in 1787, and when he departed in 1794, Goethe brought in Fichte as his replacement. Schelling arrived in 1798 and Hegel in 1801. Jena also became the home ground for many of the most significant figures in Early German Romanticism. Friedrich Schlegel moved to Jena in 1799, and he was soon followed by his brother August.
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- SchopenhauerA Biography, pp. 137 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010