First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von; Peterson, Keith R.

ISBN 10: 0791460045 / ISBN 13: 9780791460047

Published by State University of New York Press, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791460045
• ISBN 13: 9780791460047
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature.

Appearing here in English for the first time, this is F. W. J. Schelling's vital document of the attempts of German Idealism and Romanticism to recover a deeper relationship between humanity and nature and to overcome the separation between mind and matter induced by the modern reductivist program. Written in 1799 and building upon his earlier work, First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature provides the most inclusive exposition of Schelling's philosophy of the natural world. He presents a startlingly contemporary model of an expanding and contracting universe; a unified theory of electricity, gravity magnetism, and chemical forces; and, perhaps most importantly, a conception of nature as a living and organic whole.

About the Author

Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.