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."

Ages of the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von

Philosophy

Ams Pr Inc

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

In the last decade, F. W. J. von Schelling has emerged as one of the key philosophers of German Idealism, the one who, for the first time, undermined Kant's philosophical revolution and in so doing opened up the way for a viable critique of Hegel. In noted philosopher Slavoj Zizek's view, the main orientations of the post-Hegelian thought, from Kierkegaard and Marx, to Heidegger and today's deconstructionism, were prefigured in Schelling's analysis of Hegel's idealism, and in his affirmation that the contingency of existence cannot be reduced to notional self-mediation. In The Abyss of Freedom, Zizek attempts to advance Schelling's stature even further, with a commentary of the second draft of Schelling's work The Ages of the World, written in 1813. Zizek argues that Schelling's most profound thoughts are found in the series of three consecutive attempts he made to formulate the "ages of the world/Weltalter," the stages of the self-development of the Absolute. Of the three versions, claims Zizek, it is the second that is the most eloquent and definitive encompassing of Schelling's lyrical thought. It centers on the problem of how the Absolute (God) himself, in order to become actual, to exist effectively, has to accomplish a radically contingent move of acquiring material, bodily existence. Never before available in English, this version finally renders accessible one of the key texts of modern philosophy, a text that is widely debated in philosophical circles today. The Abyss of Freedom is Zizek's own reading of Schelling based upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. It focuses on the notion that Lacan's theory--which claims that the symbolic universe emerged from presymbolic drives--is prefigured in Schelling's idea of logos as given birth to from the vortex of primordial drives, or from what "in God is not yet God." For Zizek, this connection is monumental, showing that Schelling's ideas forcefully presage the post-modern "deconstruction" of logocentrism. Slavoj Zizek is not a philosopher who stoops to conquer objects but a radical voice who believes that philosophy is nothing if it is not embodied, nothing if it is only abstract. For him, true philosophy always speaks of something rather than nothing. Those interested in the genesis of contemporary thought and the fate of reason in our "age of anxiety" will find this coupling of texts not only philosophically relevant, but vitally important. Slavoj Zizek is the author of The Sublime Object of Ideology, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel and the Critique of Ideology, and most recently, The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters. Currently he is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Judith Norman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of the World (The Body, in Theory - Histories of Cultural Materialism)

Literature & Fiction

Žižek, Slavoj

History & Criticism

Univ of Michigan Pr

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

State Univ of New York Pr

System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and seven years before Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

System of Transcendental Idealism

Univ of Virginia Pr

The Philosophy of Art (Theory & History of Literature) (English and German Edition)

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Four early essays by the great German philosopher, whose works has been neglected by the English-speaking world which stems not only from the ascendancy of Hegel, whose mature works portray Schelling as a mere footnote in the development of idealism, but also from his Naturphilosophie, which scientists have ridiculed for its "silly" analogizing and lack of empirical orientation. In recent years, Schelling's work has been revisited by scholars putting him based on his philosophy at the midpoint in the development of German Idealism, situating him between Fichte, his mentor prior to 1800, and Hegel, his former university roommate and erstwhile friend. In recent years, his reputation as an important philosopher has risen with scholars.  His influence and relation to the German art scene, particularly to Romantic literature and visual art, has been a scientific interest since late 1960s, from Philipp Otto Runge to Gerhard Richter and Joseph Beuys. In relation to psychology, Schelling was considered to have coined the term "unconsciousness". An excellent read.

Unconditional in Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays (1794-1796) (English and German Edition)

Associated Univ Pr

Makes Schelling’s dialogue Bruno readily accessible to the English-language reader, with valuable commentary on the work itself, which details Schelling’s account of his differences from Fichte. F. W. J. Schelling has remained unknown to most contemporary scholars, yet his thought is of great import to early 19th century philosophy and the study of German Idealism. For the first time, Michael G. Vater makes Schelling’s dialogue Bruno readily accessible to the English-language reader while providing valuable commentary on the work itself, which details Schelling’s account of his differences from Fichte. In an extensive introduction, Vater discusses the background and significance of Schelling’s identity-philosophy and its impact on the development of Hegel’s thought from 1802 to the publication of Hegel’s Phenomenology. Comprehensive notes point out Schelling’s use of classic sources, his dependence on Spinoza, and the similarities in Schelling’s and Hegel’s points of view during their collaboration on the Critical Journal. Through the value of its own arguments and its influence on Hegel, Schelling’s Bruno provides key material for the evolution on 19th century philosophy. In Schelling’s system, Hegel found the construction of a harmonious whole in which his own basic conflicts and those of his generation found their solution. Hegel’s Difference and Schelling’s Bruno announce a new programme and outline its foundations: Philosophy must become metaphysical again and unify a world torn by the conflicting and one-sided ideologies of materialism and spiritualism.

Bruno: Or, on the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things 1802

Schelling was one of the foremost representatives of German Idealism, the equal of Fichte and Hegel. This is the only translation into English of one of his most important works.

Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom

Open Court Pub. Co

Schelling, Freedom, And The Immanent Made Transcendent

Routledge

Fulvi, Daniele

Fulvi, Daniele, 1988

New York, Ny : Routledge, 2024

Ideen Zu Einer Philosophie Der Natur (1797) (German Edition)

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Ideen Zu Einer Philosophie Der Natur (German Edition)

Literary

Kessinger Pub

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