Ivan Soll
Biographic Data
| ID | 411055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Soll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Soll |
| SIGNATURE | SOLL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World
In this essay, the author examines and evaluates Schopenhauer’s arguments for the theses that (1) our experience of our own willing or wanting various things is in a fundamental and thoroughgoing way different from all of our other experiences of the world, indeed, as he says, “different toto genere ” (in every way); (2) our experience of our own will is our only experience of things as they really are as opposed to the way they usually appear to…
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber: Discovering the Mind, Volume 2
In this second volume of a trilogy that represents a landmark contribution to philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history, Walter Kaufmann has selected three seminal figures of the modem period who have radically altered our understanding of what it is to be human. His interpretations of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber are lively, accessible, and penetrating, and in the best scholarly tradition they challenge and revise accepted views.After …
Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
This book offers a unique exploration of the intellectual and personal relationships between Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, examining how their ideas intersected and diverged in shaping German thought. Walter Kaufmann and Ivan Soll delve into the philosophical and literary landscapes of these influential figures, highlighting Goethe's engagement with Kant's epistemology and aesthetics, and tracing the development of Hegel's dialectic in response to bot…
Nietzsche Disempowered: Reading the Will to Power out of Nietzsche's Philosophy
In this article I confront and criticize the widespread tendency to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss without serious consideration Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis that a “will to power” is the major motivator of human behavior. I begin by separating Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis from both his occasional cosmological extension of it into an account of all processes in the world and from his power-based theory of value. And I argue that,…
Individual and Community in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s “Great Teacher” and “Antipode”
This article examines Schopenhauer’s influence on Nietzsche’s work. It considers how Nietzsche adopted some of his central ideas from Schopenhauer, how he exploited some of Schopenhauer’s positions to suit his own purposes, and how he developed some of his ideas as alternatives to Schopenhauerian positions. Nietzsche’s first published book, The Birth of Tragedy, is based on a Schopenhauerian metaphysical framework. Schopenhauer’s principle of ind…
Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Unhappiness
This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Suffering Criticisms of Schopenhauer's Thesis that to Desire Is to Suffer The Unattainability of True Satisfaction The Inevitability of Boredom The Negative Nature of Pleasure and Satisfaction Happiness and Well-Being Degrees of Unhappiness: The Possibility of Amelioration The Paradox of the Suspension or Negation of the Will The Inevitability of Unhappiness References Fu…
Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard Reginster
While agreeing with Bernard Reginster that Nietzsche's advocacy of the will to power as a psychological thesis is much more fundamental than his extension of it as a cosmological or metaphysical thesis, I criticize him for failing to support this interpretation, and I attempt to supply an analysis that does support it. Then, I take issue with the common tendency to sanitize Nietzsche's theory of the will to power, to make it more palatable—and wi…
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
Reviewed by: The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism Ivan Soll The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. By Bernard Reginster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 336 pages. $35.00. The title of Bernard Reginster's book reflects his central thesis that the core of Nietzsche's entire philosophical enterprise consists in the attempt to foster the affirmation [End Page 420] of life despite its inherent d…
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Redemption of Life through Art
Towards the end of his working life, Nietzsche used the occasion of writing a new preface to his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, to distance himself publicly from past errors and allegiances. In this aptly titled ‘Attempt at a Self-Criticism’, he rejected his earlier adherence to the ideas of Kant and Schopenhauer and his worshipful admiration of Richard Wagner.
Walter Kaufmann and the Advocacy of German Thought in America
Um die Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts spaltete sich eine alte, aus Europa kommende philosophische Tradition in zwei Richtungen auf, in eine philosophische Kultur des europäischen Kontinents und eine solche, die ihr Zentrum in der englischsprachigen Welt hatte. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die Gründe, die zu dieser Aufspaltung führten und die Rolle, die Walter Kaufmann bei der Überwindung dieser Trennung spielte, indem er europäische Philosophen in der en…
Nietzsche on Cruelty, Asceticism, and the Failure of Hedonism
An introduction to Hegel's metaphysics
The Career of Philosophy: From the Germany Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin
Nietzsche Disempowered: Reading the Will to Power out of Nietzsche's Philosophy
In this article I confront and criticize the widespread tendency to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss without serious consideration Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis that a “will to power” is the major motivator of human behavior. I begin by separating Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis from both his occasional cosmological extension of it into an account of all processes in the world and from his power-based theory of value. And I argue that,…
The Career of Philosophy: From the Germany Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin
An introduction to Hegel's metaphysics
Nietzsche on Cruelty, Asceticism, and the Failure of Hedonism
Walter Kaufmann and the Advocacy of German Thought in America
Um die Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts spaltete sich eine alte, aus Europa kommende philosophische Tradition in zwei Richtungen auf, in eine philosophische Kultur des europäischen Kontinents und eine solche, die ihr Zentrum in der englischsprachigen Welt hatte. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die Gründe, die zu dieser Aufspaltung führten und die Rolle, die Walter Kaufmann bei der Überwindung dieser Trennung spielte, indem er europäische Philosophen in der en…
Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and the Redemption of Life through Art
Towards the end of his working life, Nietzsche used the occasion of writing a new preface to his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, to distance himself publicly from past errors and allegiances. In this aptly titled ‘Attempt at a Self-Criticism’, he rejected his earlier adherence to the ideas of Kant and Schopenhauer and his worshipful admiration of Richard Wagner.
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future
This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will b…
The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism
Reviewed by: The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism Ivan Soll The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. By Bernard Reginster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 336 pages. $35.00. The title of Bernard Reginster's book reflects his central thesis that the core of Nietzsche's entire philosophical enterprise consists in the attempt to foster the affirmation [End Page 420] of life despite its inherent d…
Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Unhappiness
This chapter contains sections titled: Schopenhauer on the Inevitability of Suffering Criticisms of Schopenhauer's Thesis that to Desire Is to Suffer The Unattainability of True Satisfaction The Inevitability of Boredom The Negative Nature of Pleasure and Satisfaction Happiness and Well-Being Degrees of Unhappiness: The Possibility of Amelioration The Paradox of the Suspension or Negation of the Will The Inevitability of Unhappiness References Fu…
Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard Reginster
While agreeing with Bernard Reginster that Nietzsche's advocacy of the will to power as a psychological thesis is much more fundamental than his extension of it as a cosmological or metaphysical thesis, I criticize him for failing to support this interpretation, and I attempt to supply an analysis that does support it. Then, I take issue with the common tendency to sanitize Nietzsche's theory of the will to power, to make it more palatable—and wi…
Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s “Great Teacher” and “Antipode”
This article examines Schopenhauer’s influence on Nietzsche’s work. It considers how Nietzsche adopted some of his central ideas from Schopenhauer, how he exploited some of Schopenhauer’s positions to suit his own purposes, and how he developed some of his ideas as alternatives to Schopenhauerian positions. Nietzsche’s first published book, The Birth of Tragedy, is based on a Schopenhauerian metaphysical framework. Schopenhauer’s principle of ind…
Individual and Community in Nietzsche's Philosophy
Nietzsche Disempowered: Reading the Will to Power out of Nietzsche's Philosophy
In this article I confront and criticize the widespread tendency to ignore, marginalize, or dismiss without serious consideration Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis that a “will to power” is the major motivator of human behavior. I begin by separating Nietzsche's psychological hypothesis from both his occasional cosmological extension of it into an account of all processes in the world and from his power-based theory of value. And I argue that,…
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber: Discovering the Mind, Volume 2
In this second volume of a trilogy that represents a landmark contribution to philosophy, psychology, and intellectual history, Walter Kaufmann has selected three seminal figures of the modem period who have radically altered our understanding of what it is to be human. His interpretations of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber are lively, accessible, and penetrating, and in the best scholarly tradition they challenge and revise accepted views.After …
Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
This book offers a unique exploration of the intellectual and personal relationships between Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, examining how their ideas intersected and diverged in shaping German thought. Walter Kaufmann and Ivan Soll delve into the philosophical and literary landscapes of these influential figures, highlighting Goethe's engagement with Kant's epistemology and aesthetics, and tracing the development of Hegel's dialectic in response to bot…
Schopenhauer on the Will as the Window to the World
In this essay, the author examines and evaluates Schopenhauer’s arguments for the theses that (1) our experience of our own willing or wanting various things is in a fundamental and thoroughgoing way different from all of our other experiences of the world, indeed, as he says, “different toto genere ” (in every way); (2) our experience of our own will is our only experience of things as they really are as opposed to the way they usually appear to…
Philosophy (14 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Metaphysics (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)