Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von; Richey, Mason (TRN); Zisselsberger, Marcus (TRN); Wirth, Jason M. (FRW)

ISBN 10: 0791471322 / ISBN 13: 9780791471326

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2008

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Historical-Critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0791471322
• ISBN-13: 9780791471326
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: As New

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Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.

Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling’s 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdisciplinary thinking. In seeking to show the development of the concept of the divine Godhead in and through various mythological systems (particularly of ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East), Schelling develops the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions. In so doing, he brings together the essential relatedness of the development of philosophical systems, human language, history, ancient art forms, and religious thought. Along the way, he engages in analyses of modern philosophical views about the origins of philosophy’s conceptual abstractions, as well as literary and philological analyses of ancient literature and poetry.

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Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination and The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time; the translator of The Ages of the World by F. W. J. Schelling; and the coeditor (with Patrick Burke) of The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature, all published by SUNY Press.