A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, this 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 rela[...]
"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". Tran[...]
Schellings Freiheitsschrift, im Jahre 1809 als einer der letzten Beitrage von ihm veroffentlicht, ehe er vierzig Jahre jede Publikation zuruckhielt, behandelt sowohl den der Moderne nahe liegenden Begriff der Freiheit, als auch zugleich die Nacht- und Schattenseiten der Freiheit. Der Begriff des Bos[...]
"Om menneskets frihet" (1809) er den tyske romantikeren Schellings kanskje største filosofiske bragd og et av de mest dyptloddende verk i den tyske filosofihistorien. Schellings store filosofiske prosjekt var å utforske hvordan forholdet mellom godt og ondt, frihet og nødvendighet kan forenes med[...]
This is the first English translation of Schelling?s Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Ne[...]
On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Desc[...]