Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Schellingâ€™s masterpiece investigating evil and freedom.

Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schellingâ€™s enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. The text is an embarrassment of richesâ€”both wildly adventurous and somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger claimed that it was â€œone of the deepest works of German and thus also of Western philosophyâ€ and that it utterly undermined Hegelâ€™s monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem of evil by building on Kantâ€™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 ZÃ°izÃ»ek.

This translation of Schellingâ€™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 Schellingâ€™s masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike.

At Clemson University, Jeff Love is Associate Professor of German and Russian and Johannes Schmidt is Associate Professor of German.

Country	USA
Author	Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780791481226
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	SUNY Press
Manufacturer	SUNY Press
NumberOfPages	222
PublicationDate	2010-03-25
Publisher	SUNY Press
ReleaseDate	2010-03-25
Studio	SUNY Press

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

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