Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom / F.W.J. Schelling ; translated and with an introduction by Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Standardized Title:

Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty.

Free will and determinism.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 183 p.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Schelling's Treatise on Freedom and the Possibility of Theodicy

Translators' Note

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM AND MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Mysterium Pansophicum Or Thorough Report on the Earthly and Heavenly Mysterium1

Franz Xaver Von Baader: "ON THE ASSERTION THAT THERE CAN BE NO WICKED USE OF REASON"1

Ephraim Gotthold Lessing: "The Parable"1

FRIEDRICH HEINRICH JACOBI: From On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters To Mr. Moses Mendelssohn1

JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER: God.Some Conversations

Notes

Index

A

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D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

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X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

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

ISBN:

9780791481226

0791481220

9781429413626

142941362X

OCLC:

76821530