Grounding of Positive Philosophy The Berlin Lectures

Name: Grounding of Positive Philosophy The Berlin Lectures
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ISBN: 9780791471302

ISBN-10: 0791471306

ISBN-13: 9780791471302

Edition: 2007

Authors: F. W. J. Schelling, Bruce Matthews

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The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling's final "existential system" as an alternative to modernity's reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The onetime protege of Fichte and benefactor of Hegel, Schelling accuses German Idealism of dealing "with the world of lived experience just as a surgeon who promises to cure your ailing leg by amputating it." Schelling's appeal in Berlin for a positive, existential philosophy found an interested audience in Kierkegaard, Engels, Feuerbach, Marx, and Bakunin. The Berlin lectures provide fascinating insight into the thought processes of one of the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 6/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748



Acknowledgments


Editorial Apparatus and Standard Abbreviations


Translator's Introduction


The Singularity of F.W.J. Schelling


Expectations in Berlin


An Existential System of Philosophy


The Grounding of Positive Philosophy


Schelling's Negative Philosophy


Existence as the Inverted Idea


Hegel Critiqued


Abduction as the Method of Positive Philosophy


Towards a Philosophical Religion


Translator's Note


On Philosophy


On the Academic Study of Philosophy


Metaphysics before Kant


Kant, Fichte, and a Science of Reason


The Difference between Negative and Positive Philosophy


History of Negative and Positive Philosophy


Metaphysical Empiricism


The Grounding of Positive Philosophy


Notes


Index