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First outline of a system of the philosophy of nature

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von 1775-1854 (Author). Peterson, Keith R. (Added Author).

Summary: "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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0791460037
ISBN: 9780791460030
ISBN: 0791460045
ISBN: 9780791460047
ISBN: 079148551X
ISBN: 9780791485514
ISBN: 9781423739395
ISBN: 1423739396
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 266 pages)
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition -- Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition -- Outline of the Whole -- First Division -- The Unconditioned in Nature -- The Original Qualities and Actants in Nature -- Actants and Their Combinations -- Inhibition and Stages of Development -- Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages -- Second Division -- First System -- Second System -- Third Possible System -- Conclusions -- Third Division -- On the Concept of Excitability -- Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of Excitability -- The Graduated Series of Stages in Nature -- General Theory of the Chemical Process -- The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe -- Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799) -- What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge -- Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature -- Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics -- On the Possibility of Speculative Physics -- On a System of Speculative Physics in General -- Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.