Predication and Genesis by Hogrebe, Wolfram;

Short description:

Combines analytic epistemology and German idealism indispensable to today’s Schelling revival.

Long description:

Wolfram Hogrebe offers a robust, uncompromisingly metaphysical reading of Schelling’s unfinished masterpiece, The Ages of the World, to propose a completely contemporary epistemology. By translating Schelling into the language of predicate logic and philosophy of language, Hogrebe also defends its metaphysical claims, equally foregrounding the relevance and challenges that Schelling’s work presents to contemporary analytic philosophy. Originally published 35 years ago, Hogrebe’s book remains ahead of his time. It masterfully bridges the analytic and continental divide – before most philosophers considered this a possibility – and successfully demonstrates Schelling’s contemporary relevance and vitality. Included in this translation is a new author’s preface to the English edition, his preface to the Italian translation (2011), an introduction to the philosophical themes of the book by the translators who are prominent Schelling scholars, a Postface by Markus Gabriel, Hogrebe’s colleague in Bonn, along with a readers’ guide to Hogrebe’s major works.

Table of Contents:

Translators’ Introduction: Synthetic Mantics, Iain Hamilton Grant and Jason M. Wirth

Author’s Foreword to the English Edition

Author’s Foreword to the Italian Edition (2011)

1. Foreword
2. Schelling and Dante: an Introduction to Schelling’s Thinking
3. Transition to a Reconstruction of The Ages of the World: Metaphysics and the Theory of Predication
4. Predication and Genesis: The Ages of the World
5. Afterword

Postface: The Ontology of Predication in Schelling’s The Ages of the World, Markus Gabriel

Index