Kurzbeschreibung
<div><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">This is the first translation into English of an important early work of the German idealist philosopher F.W.J. Schelling. <i>Philosophy and Religion </i>(1804) is considered a precursor to his major work on freedom, his <i>Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom </i>(1809). In <i>Philosophy and Religion</i>, Schelling raises the question of how philosophy can come to terms with the failure of approaching the highest principle of being, the Absolute (or God), rationally. He argues that the only possibility of recognizing the Absolute lies in intellectual intuition, which goes beyond presentiment or religious intuition. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">For Schelling, it is the task of philosophy to lead the soul towards the intuition of the Infinite: “All philosophy begins . . . with an animated idea of the Absolute.” In recent years, Schelling’s philosophical ideas have been adopted by contemporary thinkers such as the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek and the French theorist of “Non- Philosophy,” François Laruelle. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></div>>
Über den Autor
<div><font size="1"> <p>Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775–1854), along with J.G. </p> <p>Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel, was one of the three most influential </p> <p>thinkers in the tradition of German Idealism. Among his philosophical </p> <p>works are First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature </p> <p>(1799), System of Transcendental Idealism (1800), Philosophical </p> <p>Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom (1809), The Ages of the </p> <p>World (1813), and Philosophy of Mythology (1857).</p></font></div> Klaus Ottmann is a philosopher, writer, and curator based in New York. He has written numerous essays on art, design, and philosophy, and is the author of The Genius Decision: The Extraordinary and the Postmodern Condition; The Essential™ Michelangelo; The Essential™ Mark Rothko; Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective; and James Lee Byars: Life, Love, and Death. He is the curator of the sixth SITE Santa Fe international biennial, which takes place between July and December 2006. >