All You Want to Know about Schopenhauer's Will (without reading the book)
About the presentation
The team from the Schopenhauer reading group will present their findings about Schopenhauer's concept of the Will, based on their reading and discussion of the first volume of his main work "The World as Will and Representation."
About Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer (born 22 February 1788 in Danzig) began in medicine and natural science at the University of Göttingen in 1809 but quickly turned to philosophy, moving to the new University of Berlin (1811–13) to study with thinkers like Fichte and Schleiermacher; in 1813 he earned a PhD from Jena with his dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, then spent years in Dresden completing his magnum opus The World as Will and Representation, first published in 1818, while repeatedly failing to secure a lasting university post despite qualifying to lecture in Berlin in 1820, and he continued publishing and refining his ideas until his death in Frankfurt on 21 September 1860.
About Studies in Culture, and Translation & Interpreting Research Joint Seminars
Studies in Culture
Through the scholarly analysis of many different kinds of cultural products, texts and phenomena, Studies in Culture brings together researchers who seek to understand how the world is understood differently by people coming from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Researchers in this cluster work on literature, film, music, theatre, the visual arts, intangible heritage, testimonies and historical narratives.
Research in Studies in Culture within the School centres around four broad sub-themes of Heritage, memory and trauma studies; Intellectual and cultural history; Literature; and Film and visual cultures.
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Translation & Interpreting
Translation and Interpreting (T&I) is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary area of research. The school’s translation and interpreting research activities cover two main streams: applied research relating to translation and interpreting practice, pedagogy and the T&I industry, and theoretical approaches to translation in the areas of literature, cultural studies and philosophy.
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