This book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the work of the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854). Out of the three major thinkers of the immediate post-Kantian period--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--Schelling has received relatively little attention in the anglophone world. The book begins by tracing the development of Schelling's earlier work but concentrates on clearly explaining his difficult late philosophy. It also offers, for the first time in English, a full survey of the ...
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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of the work of the German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775-1854). Out of the three major thinkers of the immediate post-Kantian period--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--Schelling has received relatively little attention in the anglophone world. The book begins by tracing the development of Schelling's earlier work but concentrates on clearly explaining his difficult late philosophy. It also offers, for the first time in English, a full survey of the significant divergences between Schelling's late work and the much better-known thought of Hegel.
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