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Project code: 6-03-080

The Adoption of Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy in Croatian Literature and Philosophy

Main researcher: STANČIĆ, MIRJANA (12986)

Assistants

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 06/30/94.

Papers on project (total): 14

Institution name: Pedagoški fakultet, Osijek (122)
Department/Institute: -
Address: L.Jaegera 9
City: 31000 - Osijek, Croatia

Communication: Phone: 385 (0)31 125 199; Fax: 385 (0)31 126 757

Summary: The philosophy A. Schopenhauer's has been intensively effecting Croatian literature and philosophy since 1880. Most of the nameful Croatian realistic, as well as modernistic novelists and dramatists were reflecting Schopenhauer's idea of self assertive will. Some of them have also adopted his aesthetic theory as their own. At the beginning of the 20th century the cult od Schopenhauer reaches its climax, nevertheless it is subjected by M. Krleža to the severe criticism. The monograph "The Adoption of Arthur Schopenhauer within the Croatian Literature and Philosophy" contains also a detailed list of the most relevant essays on Schopenhauer, as well as the translation of his works into Croatian and Serbian.

Keywords: Arthur Schopenhauer, philosophy, theory of adoption (reception), philosophy of the will, "The world as will and imagination", pessimism, predecessor Nietzsches, art=liberation, cult of music, mystification of suicide as of utmost reflection of free will, trivialisation of philosophy, Schopenhauer="women hater",

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