Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)
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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.
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
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EANs 9780791468746
ReleaseDate 2007-06-01

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	unknown
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780791468746
ReleaseDate	2007-06-01

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

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