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: (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.

State Univ of New York Pr

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.

Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental 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.

Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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.

Peterson, Keith R

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 (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental 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)

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

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

Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.

Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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

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Ages of the World

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

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

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

Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World (Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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

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

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

Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

System of Transcendental Idealism