Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom

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Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt offer a fresh translation of Schelling's enigmatic and influential masterpiece, widely recognized as an indispensable work of German Idealism. The text is an embarrassment of riches—both wildly adventurous and somberly prescient. Martin Heidegger claimed that it was "one of the deepest works of German and thus also of Western philosophy" and that it utterly undermined Hegel's monumental Science of Logic before the latter had even appeared in print. Schelling carefully investigates the problem of evil by building on Kant's notion of radical evil, while also developing an astonishingly original conception of freedom and personality that exerted an enormous (if subterranean) influence on the later course of European philosophy from Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard through Heidegger to important contemporary theorists like Slavoj Zðizûek.

This translation of Schelling's notoriously difficult and densely allusive work provides extensive annotations and translations of a series of texts (by Boehme, Baader, Lessing, Jacobi, and Herder), hard to find or previously unavailable in English, whose presence in the Philosophical Investigations is unmistakable and highly significant. This handy study edition of Schelling's masterpiece will prove useful for scholars and students alike.

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	25 mars 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780791481226
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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F.W.J.Schelling TranslatedandwithanIntroductionandNotesby JeffLoveandJohannesSchmidt

Philosophical Investigationsinto theEssenceof Human Freedom

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM

SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Dennis J. Schmidt, editor

PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

INTO THE ESSENCE OF

HUMAN FREEDOM

F.W.J.SCHELLING Translated and with an Introduction by Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt

S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E W Y O R K P R E S S

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775–1854. [Philosophische Untersuchungen u(ber das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. English] Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom / F.W.J. Schelling ; translated and with an introduction by Jeff Love and Johannes Schmidt. p. cm. — (Suny series in contemporary continental philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6873-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6873-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Liberty. 2. Free will and determinism. 3. Good and evil. I. Title. II. Series.

BJ1463.S345 2006 123'.5—dc22

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Acknowledgments,

vii

Contents

Introduction, Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom and the Possibility of Theodicy, ix

Translators’ Note,

xxxi

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith,

Introductory Note,

Supplementary Texts

Jacob Boehme:Mysterium Pansophicum or Thorough Report on the Earthly and Heavenly Mysterium,

Franz Xaver von Baader: “On the Assertion That There Can No Wicked Use of Reason”,

Ephraim Gotthold Lessing: “A Parable”,

103

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: FromOn the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn, 106

Johann Gottfried Herder: FromGod. Some Conversations,

Notes,

131

125

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Acknowledgments

It is our distinct pleasure to acknowledge the support provided by the College of Arts, Architecture and Humanities at Clemson Univer-sity in the form of a substantial research grant that allowed us to begin work on the translation in the spring of 2004. We should also like to thank Bill Maker for his help and encouragement in the early stages of the project and Todd May for reading an initial draft of the Introduction. Concentrated work on projects of this nature often makes considerable demands on one’s immediate colleagues, and we should like to convey our special thanks to Margit Sinka for her deter-mined and unﬂagging commitment to our completing the project in a timely manner as well as to Lee Ferrell for taking on many responsibil-ities with promptness and good cheer. For the reproduction of Schelling’s handwriting on the cover, we wish to acknowledge the kind permission of the Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, NL F. W. J. Schelling, No. 95.

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Introduction

Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom

and the Possibility of Theodicy

Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith (1809)is now one of Schelling’s more cel-ebrated writings, having received a good deal of attention over the last half century, especially since Heidegger’s lectures on thePhilo-sophical Investigationswere published in book form in the early seven-ties. Indeed, these lectures, along with notable reevaluations of Schelling’s thought as a whole undertaken by such important ﬁgures as Walter Schulz, Manfred Frank, and Slavoj ˇZi†zek, have tended to give thePhilosophical Investigationsa special place and authority within 1 Schelling’s corpus. Although there are many complex reasons for this, two warrant mention over the others: increasing recognition of Schelling’s signiﬁcance as a critic of German Idealism who anticipated many of the most important trends to emerge in its wake and his role as herald of a radical approach to the problem of freedom as one con-nected intimately with the freedom to do evil. In this latter respect, thePhilosophical Investigationsrepresents a feat of sustained and sin-uous thought, a remarkable synthesis of Pascal’sesprit de géometrie andesprit de ﬁnesse,that seeks to transform the Leibnizian notion of theodicy left in ruins by Kant’s critical project. Since this speciﬁcally theodical perspective on Schelling’s consideration of evil has received less intensive treatment in most of the important recent interpreta-tions of thePhilosophical Investigations—among which those of Hei-deggerandˇZi†zekhaveacquiredparticularprominence—weshould like to introduce our translation by providing a brief sketch of this very aspect of Schelling’s treatise, one that we think is particularly fe-cund in and of itself, but that also casts light in interesting ways on the 2 interpretations offered by Heidegger and ˇZi†zek.

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