ABSTRACT
This contribution will focus on the connection between Schopenhauer’s conception of subjectivity and consciousness. We will be concerned, in particular, with that species of self-consciousness by means of which philosophers sought to identify and define the subject of cognition. This type of self-consciousness is what is ultimately at stake in Descartes’s cogito and Kant’s ‘transcendental apperception’, and it also plays a central role in German idealism, for instance in Fichte’s or Hegel’s thought.
