| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 311 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Towards nature -- Agency and absolute identity -- Freedom -- Thinking and being -- Beyond the idea -- Blind existing-ness -- Mythological consciousness -- Reason and revelation -- History as liberation |
| Summary |
"This book presents and evaluates the late philosophy (Spätphilosophie) of F. W. J. Schelling (1775-1854) across a wide range of issues, ranging from relation between pure thinking and being, to the philosophy of mythology and religion, to the philosophy of history, to questions concerning the philosophy of nature and freedom. Simultaneously, it discusses Hegel's treatment of similar issues, and systematically compares the two thinkers. This is the first time, in an English-language publication, that these two major German Idealists have been compared in such detail along such a broad front. The book begins with three chapters exploring the development of Schelling's thinking concerning transcendental philosophy, nature and teleology, human freedom, and the theory of history, from his earliest publications up to his middle years. Against this background, the book then presents Schelling's distinction between "positive" and "negative" philosophy, the defining mark of his late philosophy. It explores his theory of pure a priori thinking (negative philosophy), and his account of the transition from negative to positive philosophy. The major components of Schelling's positive philosophy, including his conception of "un-pre-thinkable being", and his theories of mythology and revelation, are then discussed. Throughout, a comparative assessment of Hegel's approach similar issues is sustained. Schelling emerges as a philosopher who traced his own highly distinctive path through the thicket of problems bequeathed by Kant, and whose systematic responses to these problems still merit serious consideration as alternatives to those of Hegel"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed November 30, 2023) |
| Subject |
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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| SUBJECT |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast |
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Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854 fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, German
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History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022026837 |
| ISBN |
0190069155 |
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9780190069131 |
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0190069139 |
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9780190069148 |
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0190069147 |
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9780190069155 |
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