Judith Norman is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas. She has published articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, and has translated works by Schelling, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Alistair Welchman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has published articles on Schopenhauer, Schelling and contemporary French philosophy, and has translated works by Schopenhauer and Maimon.

• Introduction Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman; 1. Different Kinds of willing in Schopenhauer Christopher Janaway; 2. Resignation Bernard Reginster; 3. Appreciating nature aesthetically in the world as will and representation: Between Kant and Hegel Sandra Shapshay; 4. The hour of consecration: Inspiration and cognition in Schopenhauer's genius Cheryl Foster; 5. Experiencing character as a key for a present-day interpretation of Schopenhauer Matthias Koßler; 6. Schopenhauer in dialogue with Fichte and Schelling: Schopenhauer's critique of moral fatalism and his turn to freedom from willing Manja Kisner; 7. Schopenhauer's philosophy of religion – (Hopeless) romanticism? Dennis Vanden Auweele; 8. Maja and Nieban in the world as will and representation Stephan Atzert; 9. Schopenhauer, universal guilt, and asceticism as the expression of universal compassion Robert Wicks; 10. Seeing things: Schopenhauer's Kant critique and direct realism Alistair Welchman; 11. The sciences in the world as will and representation Marco Segala; 12. Pushing back: Reading the world as will and representation as a woman Judith Norman.