The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures (SUNY series in Hegelian Studies) - Hardcover

Schelling, F. W. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791471292 ISBN 13: 9780791471296

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2007

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The first English translation of Schelling's final "existential system."

The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling's final "existential system" as an alternative to modernity's reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The onetime protégé of Fichte and benefactor of Hegel, Schelling accuses German Idealism of dealing "with the world of lived experience just as a surgeon who promises to cure your ailing leg by amputating it." Schelling's appeal in Berlin for a positive, existential philosophy found an interested audience in Kierkegaard, Engels, Feuerbach, Marx, and Bakunin. His account of the ecstatic nature of existence and reason proved to be decisive for the work of Paul Tillich and Martin Heidegger. Also, Schelling's critique of reason's quixotic attempt at self-grounding anticipates similar criticisms leveled by poststructuralism, but without sacrificing philosophy's power to provide a positive account of truth and meaning. The Berlin lectures provide fascinating insight into the thought processes of one of the most provocative yet least understood thinkers of nineteenth-century German philosophy.

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Bruce Matthews is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bard High School Early College. He is translator of Schelling's The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures, also published by SUNY Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0791471292
• ISBN 13: 9780791471296
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Herausgeber: Matthews Bruce
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