schelling on the history of modern philosophy pdf

Not only do these lectures mark Schelling’s decisive break with Hegel and, arguably, the entire tradition of German idealism in which Schelling himself played such a prominent role he himself considered these lectures to be the culmination of all his thought hitherto – which is all the more remarkable when one considers the countless systems and drafts of systems his thought went through.Īccordingly, the goal of our project, building on the important scholarly work of the past century, is to produce the first comprehensive critical edition in English – or, indeed, in any language – of Schelling’s Original Version of the Philosophy of Revelation, and thereby make it possible for the Anglophone world finally to assess the merits of Schelling’s late – and perhaps best – philosophy.

What motivates our project is what this great philosopher had to say in his lectures during the last decades of his life, and in particular what he had to say in his 1831/32 lectures on the philosophy of revelation, which he began to deliver in the same year that Hegel died. In The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, the American idealist, Josiah Royce (1855-1916), called him the “prince of romanticists and the poetic seer of splendid metaphysical visions.” After Schelling’s famous 1809 essay on human freedom, however, the young philosopher fell silent, publishing nothing more until his death in 1854, and so it is in 1809 that the standard narrative of Schelling’s contribution to the history of philosophy tends to end.

Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Original Lectures The Projectįriedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) has long been recognized as one of the great philosophers of the German tradition, alongside Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, his roommate together with the famous poet Hölderlin, in the Tübingen Stift (the state seminary of Württemberg). Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Original Lectures.

Schelling on the history of modern philosophy pdf