This series shows no signs of slowing down. Several volumes have been reviewed in these columns, most recently a large volume on Hegel (Houlgate and Baur, 2011) (RR 2012/154). The format will now be familiar: a collection of essays by separate academic authors covering a variety of topics related to the philosopher or philosophical field in question. The publishers claim that this is "the first comprehensive guide to the philosopher, covering all the major aspects of his work". This is perhaps overstating the case since there is a volume on Schopenhauer in the Cambridge Companions series (Janaway, 1999) (RR 2000/224) and he has also been the subject of a number of volumes by single authors in recent years who have covered the range of his thought. But as a collection by several hands, this is a more substantial work than the one published by Cambridge, having 25 chapters to the latter's 14.
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