On the Deities of Samothrace (Studies in Continental Thought)

Schelling, F.W.J.

Religion & Spirituality

Indiana University Press

The Ages of the World: (Fragment) from the Handwritten Remains, Third Versionj (C. 1815) (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator. A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, Schelling struggles with the question of time as the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Thinking in the wake of Hegel, although trying to think beyond his grasp, this extraordinary work is a poetic and philosophical address of difference, of thinking’s relationship to its inscrutable ground.

The Ages of the World (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

Clara: or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Part novella, part philosophy, Clara was Schelling's most popular work during his lifetime, and appears here in English for the first time. This is the first English translation of Schelling’s novel, most likely written after the death of his first wife, Caroline, the former wife of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Although only a fragment, Clara remains unique. Part novella, part philosophical tome, its central theme is the connection between this world and the next. Schelling masterfully weaves together his knowledge of animal magnetism, literary techniques, and his doctrine of the potencies to make his philosophy accessible to all. Steinkamp addresses the main issues concerning the dating of the work―many commentators have deemed Clara to be a sketch for Schelling’s The Ages of the World or an outline for the third, missing book of that work―and provides a short biography of Schelling with particular emphasis on events claimed to play a role in the conception of Clara, such as the deaths of both Caroline and her daughter, Auguste. She also shows how passages in Clara are strikingly similar to the content of Schelling’s touching letters mourning Caroline, written to Pauline, the daughter of Caroline’s best friend and the woman who would become his second wife. Clara, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, is an early illustration of Schelling’s attempt to unite his positive and negative philosophy.

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature.

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature. Appearing here in English for the first time, this is F. W. J. Schelling’s vital document of the attempts of German Idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductivist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling’s philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole.

Schelling’s masterpiece investigating evil and freedom. Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling’s enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. The text is an embarrassment of riches―both wildly adventurous and somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger claimed that it was “one of the deepest works of German and thus also of Western philosophy” and that it utterly undermined Hegel’s monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem of evil by building on Kant’s notion of radical evil, while also developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) influence on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary theorists like Slavoj Zðizûek. This translation of Schelling’s notoriously difficult and densely allusive work provides extensive annotations and translations of a series of texts (by Boehme, Baader, Lessing, Jacobi, and Herder), hard to find or previously unavailable in English, whose presence in the Philosophical Investigations is unmistakable and highly significant. This handy study edition of Schelling’s masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike.

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Essays on phenomenological encounters with the world. Taking Edmund Husserl’s dictum to heart yet finding in it a new direction, The Things Themselves is an attempt to return philosophy to the world and, in so doing, know ourselves and our place in that world anew. The book deals with the myriad ways in which a phenomenological approach to philosophy can inform commonplace experiences and understanding. From a trip to Disneyland to a morning spent watching television exercise shows, from the commitment to become a vegetarian to the choice to become a political revolutionary, this book breaks down the barrier between theory and praxis, demanding that we both investigate and hold ourselves accountable to this world. Written in an accessible yet philosophically rigorous style, H. Peter Steeves not only attempts to return philosophy to the world but also to return philosophy to the nonspecialist, to those simply interested in the simplest things, the things themselves that fill our lives but inevitably, and most wondrously, prove anything but simple. “The Things Themselves is a collection of essays dealing with the experiential dimensions of popular culture. H. Peter Steeves is a phenomenologically oriented hybrid of Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard, and not only is he quite as good as they are, his writing also offers a strong argument for why we need to expand the reach of phenomenology rather than set it aside. Steeves has an extraordinary eye for the revealing empirical detail. His essays on Disneyland and Las Vegas are masterpieces in the hermeneutics of irreality. His powers of observation are those of a writer or a painter, and his essay on Cézanne is quite as revealing as Merleau-Ponty’s classic. This is a highly original book, full of ideas, and it brilliantly applies phenomenology to our real (and unreal) experience. It will have a major impact on the field.” — David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

The first English translation of Schelling’s final “existential system.”

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On the Deities of Samothrace (Studies in Continental Thought)

On the Deities of Samothrace (Studies in Continental Thought)

The Ages of the World (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Clara: or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Clara: or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)