Format:
xxv, 311 Seiten :
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Illustrationen ;
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25 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-19-006912-4
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Rezensiert in: European journal of philosophy, Volume 32, Number 1 (2024), Seite 296-298 (Eliza Starbuck Little)
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Towards nature -- Agency and absolute identity -- Freedom -- Thinking and being -- Beyond the idea -- Blind existing-ness -- Mythological consciousness -- Reason and revelation -- History as liberation
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-006915-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
1775-1854 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
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Hegelianismus
Author information:
Dews, Peter 1952-
