The Ages of the WorldA new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, Schelling struggles with the question of time as the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Thinking in the wake of Hegel, although trying to think beyond his grasp, this extraordinary work is a poetic and philosophical address of difference, of thinking's relationship to its inscrutable ground. |
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accordance active actual affirming albeit already antithesis appears attracting become beginning called certainly cision comes comport conation concealed concept consciousness contraction contradiction copula creation creatures darkness discern divine doctrine duality elevated Elohim emerges equipollence essence eternal freedom eternal nature eternal Yes everything existence expressed F. H. Jacobi feeling fire Freedom essay God's ground Hegel Hence Hermann Krings higher potency highest holism human hylozoism inner insofar intellect interior Jakob Böhme kind knowledge Leibniz living Love madness magnetic sleep manifest meaning movement necessary necessity negating force obsession oneself opposition originary pantheism past person philosophy posited possible precisely present prime matter primordial force principle pure Godhead reason relationship respect revelation Schelling Schelling's second potency selfhood sense Seyende Seyn speak Spinoza spirit world strives sublimated subordinate tetractys thereby things thinking thought Timaeus tion translation turgor uncon unfolding unity utterly Weltalter Wesen whole word yearning