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

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.

Politics & Social Sciences

Schelling, F.W.J.

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

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

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

State Univ of New York Pr

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

The first English translation of Schelling’s final “existential system.” The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling’s final “existential system” as an alternative to modernity’s reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The onetime protégé of Fichte and benefactor of Hegel, Schelling accuses German Idealism of dealing “with the world of lived experience just as a surgeon who promises to cure your ailing leg by amputating it.” Schelling’s appeal in Berlin for a positive, existential philosophy found an interested audience in Kierkegaard, Engels, Feuerbach, Marx, and Bakunin. His account of the ecstatic nature of existence and reason proved to be decisive for the work of Paul Tillich and Martin Heidegger. Also, Schelling’s critique of reason’s quixotic attempt at self-grounding anticipates similar criticisms leveled by poststructuralism, but without sacrificing philosophy’s power to provide a positive account of truth and meaning. The Berlin lectures provide fascinating insight into the thought processes of one of the most provocative yet least understood thinkers of nineteenth-century German philosophy.

The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Suny Series in Hegelian Studies)

Religion & Spirituality

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 (1800)

University of Virginia Press

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph. The Philosophy of Art. Edited, translated, and introduced by Douglas W. Stott. Foreword by David Simpson. First Edition. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1989. 15 x 22,5 cm. LV, 342 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Construction of Art As Such and in General; Construction of the Content of Art; Derivation of Mythology as the Content of Art; Contrast between Ancient and Modern Poesy in Relation to Mythology etc.

The Philosophy of Art (Volume 58) (Theory and History of Literature)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Univ. of Minnesota Press

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 (SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies) (Suny Hegelian Studies)

The first complete translation of the 1841-42 lectures on “Philosophy and Revelation” by the important German idealist philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854), as transcribed by H. E. G. Paulus.
Schelling's “Philosophy of Revelation” was never published during his lifetime. The historically most significant 1841-42 lectures in Berlin exist only in transcriptions, which form the basis of this volume. Introduced, translated, and annotated by the Schelling scholar Klaus Ottmann, the lectures are paired with earlier writings and lectures on the subject of philosophy and religion, such as his 1798 text on “Revelation and National Education”; his 1802 Jena lecture “On the Historical Construct of Christianity”; and his 1827 inaugural lecture in Munich.

Philosophy of Revelation (1841–42) and Related Texts

Spring Publications, Inc.

The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800-1802) (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out.

The Philosophical Rupture Between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence 1800-1802 (Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Fichte, J. G.

Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out. The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as “partners” in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte’s departure from Jena in 1799, each began to perceive a drift in their fundamental interests and allegiances. Schelling’s philosophy of nature seemed to move him toward a realistic philosophy, while Fichte’s interests in the origin of personal consciousness, intersubjectivity, and the ultimate determination of the agent’s moral will moved him to explore what he called “faith” in one popular text, or a theory of an intelligible world. This volume brings together the letters the two philosophers exchanged between 1800 and 1802 and the texts that each penned with the other in mind. “The book presents an unparalleled opportunity to observe an important set of [Fichte and Schelling’s] philosophical exchanges and has the potential to affect one’s understanding of post-Kantian philosophy in a lasting way … This well-conceived and carefully edited volume shines a bright light on a crucial and formative time in the lives of both Fichte and Schelling.” — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Vater and Wood have given us a real gift: a strong and philosophically provocative edition of this indispensible exchange. A thoughtful and very helpful essay that puts many of the issues into a fresh philosophical perspective precedes the letters, and some of the important primary texts germane to this debate follow them. For lovers of German idealism, this is a text of great interest and its appearance calls for celebration.” — Jason M. Wirth, author of The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time

F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) believed he had found, in the ancient initiation rites performed on the Greek island of Samothrace, the information lost to modernity with which to decode the "the original system of belief" celebrated and preserved in the Sacred Mysteries of the ancient Greeks, that is: the Dionysian, the Eleusinian, the Orphic, and the Samo-Thracian. The Sacred Mysteries revered the cosmos as the revelation of divinities communicating through nature. This origin-al revelation illuminates the mystery of the unified spiritual system of nature in which human reality participates. "On the Divinities of Samothrace" (1815) was originally an address delivered to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and is counted by scholars as the beginning of the final "existential" phase of Schelling's philosophy. For, the philosophical ground of the sacred teachings is that we exist (ex-sistare) by "standing-out-of" the primal eternally-cyclical nature of the cosmos and into chronological time: a teaching not completely unlike the Amor Fati of Nietzsche's Eternal Return. Thus, this essay invokes the nature of indeterminate pre-history as more original than rational characterizations of time. And, yet, despite the philosophical depth into which Schelling thinks, his essay is strikingly lucid and concise. This publication includes a new translation of Schelling's essay, along with its exposition and discussion, by Frank Scalambrino (2019).

On the Divinities of Samothrace

Scalambrino, Frank

Magister Ludi Press

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