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Subject(s)

• Liberty [Browse]
• Free will and determinism [Browse]
• Good and evil [Browse]

Series

• SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy [More in this series]
• Suny series in contemporary continental philosophy

Summary note

"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 Zizek." "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."--Jacket.

Notes

Translated from the German.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-172) and index.

Contents

• Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom and matters connected therewith / Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
• Mysterium pansophicum or thorough report on the earthly and heavenly mysterium / Jacob Boehme
• "On the assertion that there can [be] no wicked use of reason" / Franz Xaver von Baader
• A parable / Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
• From On the doctrine of Spinoza in letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
• From God, some conversations / Johann Gottfried Herder.

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ISBN

• 0791468739
• 9780791468739
• 0791468747
• 9780791468746

LCCN

2005031384

OCLC

62281617

International Article Number

• 9780791468739
• 99816476083

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