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Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy: Life as the Schema of Freedom


F. W. J. Schelling’s prescient warning that the subjectivism of modernity threatens the “annihilation of nature” frames this provocative new reading of this most enigmatic and challenging thinker. 
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My review of Markus Gabriel's book about Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology and Revelation, Der Mensch im Mythos (2005), is now available in the most recent volume of the International Yearbook of German Idealism (2009). If the price of the journal - $90 - is too steep, you can find the review here.

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Happy Holidays!

Wishing all of you the happiest
of holidays and a hopeful start to 2012.

Above, Christmas Day Sunset on the Feldberg summit, looking towards the Swiss Alps on the horizon.
Below, from Heilige Abend and Christmas Day, shots of the Fahl Waterfall, Felberg, and Heidegger's Hut in Todtnauberg.


 

 

 













The Grounding of Positive Philosophy:
The
Berlin Lectures

The first English translation of Schelling's final existential system. "With the publication of this translation, the last significant barrier to the reception of Schelling by the Schelling: The Berlin Lectures: The Grounding of Positive PhilosophyEnglish-speaking philosophical community has been removed. As Bruce Matthews shows in his powerful introductory essay, Schelling's philosophical confrontation with Kant and Hegel gave birth to an utterly new and independent way of doing philosophy, one grounded not in the concept but in the intuition of existence itself." 
            -- Joseph P. Lawrence
       College of the Holy Cross
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