F. W. J. Schelling 
The Ages of the World 

A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, Schelling struggles with the question of time as the relationship between poetry and philosophy. Thinking in the wake of Hegel, although trying to think beyond his grasp, this extraordinary work is a poetic and philosophical address of difference, of thinking’s relationship to its inscrutable ground.

Table of Content

Translator’s Introduction




Synoptic Table of Contents from Schelling




First Book: The Past




A. The Eternal Life of the Godhead as the Whole or the Construction of the Complete Idea of God




B. The Life of the Individual Potency




C. The Actual Assumption of Being (= Revelation = Birth) by God




German-English Lexicon




English-German Lexicon




Appendix: Schelling Editions




Notes




Index

About the author

Jason M. Wirth is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oglethorpe University.