Combines analytic epistemology and German idealism indispensable to today’s Schelling revival.
Wolfram Hogrebe offers a robust, uncompromisingly metaphysical reading of Schelling’s unfinished masterpiece, The Ages of the World, to propose a completely contemporary epistemology. By translating Schelling into the language of predicate logic and philosophy of language, Hogrebe also defends its metaphysical claims, equally foregrounding the relevance and challenges that Schelling’s work presents to contemporary analytic philosophy. Originally published 35 years ago, Hogrebe’s book remains ahead of his time. It masterfully bridges the analytic and continental divide – before most philosophers considered this a possibility – and successfully demonstrates Schelling’s contemporary relevance and vitality. Included in this translation is a new author’s preface to the English edition, his preface to the Italian translation (2011), an introduction to the philosophical themes of the book by the translators who are prominent Schelling scholars, a Postface by Markus Gabriel, Hogrebe’s colleague in Bonn, along with a readers’ guide to Hogrebe’s major works.
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A lucid translation of a profound and important work. By showing that Schelling can be rewritten in analytic language, Hogrebe exposes the irrationality of the belief that algorithms can duplicate reality. Reason comes to its senses where it recognizes in its own ungrounded ground not just the recalcitrance ofthe real but the challenge of our freedom. -- Joseph P. Lawrence, Translator of Schelling's Ages of the World (1811)
Translators Introduction: Synthetic Mantics, Iain Hamilton Grant and
Jason M. Wirth
Authors Foreword to the English Edition
Authors Foreword to the Italian Edition (2011)
Genesis and Predication
Foreword
Schelling and Dante: an Introduction to Schellings Thinking
Transition to a Reconstruction of The Ages of the World: Metaphysics and the
Theory of Predication
Predication and Genesis: The Ages of the World
Afterword
Postface: The Ontology of Predication in Schellings The Ages of the World,
Markus Gabriel
Index
Wolfram Hogrebe is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at The University of Bonn. He is the author of several books in German. This is his first book to be translated into English. Iain Hamilton Grant is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (Continuum 2006) and Die Natur der Natur (Merve 2018), co-editor, with Emilio Carlo Carriero, of Rivista di Estetica 74 (2020). He was awarded the Paolo Bozzi Prize for Ontology in 2019. He is currently translating Schellings On the World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings and working on a philosophy of ubiquitous creation. Jason M. Wirth is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Seattle University. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY, 2017), Commiserating with Devastated Things (Fordham University Press, 2015) and Schellings Practice of the Wild (SUNY, 2015). He is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy. Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the author of many books and articles in German. His publications in English include Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), The Limits of Epistemology (Polity Press, 2019), Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism (Continuum, 2011) and co-author with Slavoj iek of Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (Continuum, 2009).
