Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature : As Introduction to the Study of This Science 1797 Second Edition 1803

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling; Errol E. Harris [translator]; Peter Heath [translator]; Robert Stern [introduction]

ISBN 10: 0521357330 / ISBN 13: 9780521357333

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1988

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22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 294pp. Appendix, indices. Some toning to covers. Part of the series Texts in German Philosophy, edited by Raymond Geuss.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature : As Introduction to the Study of This Science 1797 Second Edition 1803
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521357330
• ISBN 13: 9780521357333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

This is an English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another. In the revisions of 1803 Schelling incorporated this dialectical view into a neo-Platonic conception of an original unity divided upon itself. The text is of more than simply historical interest: its daring and original vision of nature, philosophy, and empirical science will prove absorbing reading for all philosophers concerned with post-Kantian German idealism, for scholars of German Romanticism, and for historians of science.

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This is the first English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature, one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another.