System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)
Title | System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780813914589 |
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.
The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling
Title | The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling PDF eBook |
Author | J. G. Fichte |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2012-03-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438440197 |
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.
First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature
Title | First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | F. W. J. Schelling |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 079148551X |
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.
Idealism and the Endgame of Theory
Title | Idealism and the Endgame of Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791417096 |
Three seminal philosophical texts by F. W. J. Schelling, arguably the most complex representations of German Idealism, are clearly presented here for the first time in English. Included are Schelling's "Treatise Explicatory of the Idealism in the Science of Knowledge" (1797), "System of Philosophy in General" (1804), and "Stuttgart Seminars" (1810). Of these texts, the "Treatise" constitutes the most comprehensive critical reading of Kant and Fichte by a contemporary thinker and, as a result, proved seminal to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's efforts at interconnecting English Romanticism and German speculative thought. Extending his early critique of subjectivity, Schelling's "System of Philosophy in General" and his "Stuttgart Seminars" launch a far more radical inquiry into the notion of identity, a term which for Schelling, increasingly reveals the contingent nature and inescapable limitations of theoretical practice. An extensive critical introduction relates Schelling's work both to his philosophical contemporaries (Kant, Fichte, and Hegel) as well as to the contemporary debates about Theory in the humanities. The book includes extensive annotations of each translated text, an excursus on Schelling and Coleridge, a comprehensive multi-lingual bibliography, and a glossary.
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
Title | Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | F. W. J. von Schelling |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 1988-09-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521357333 |
This is an 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 Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another. In the revisions of 1803 Schelling incorporated this dialectical view into a neo-Platonic conception of an original unity divided upon itself. The text is of more than simply historical interest: its daring and original vision of nature, philosophy, and empirical science will prove absorbing reading for all philosophers concerned with post-Kantian German idealism, for scholars of German Romanticism, and for historians of science.
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom
Title | Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | F. W. J. Schelling |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2010-03-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791481220 |
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.
The Abyss of Freedom
Title | The Abyss of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Slavoj Žižek |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472066520 |
An essay by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, with an English translation of Schelling's beautiful and evocative Ages of the World, second draft