Schelling and The Ages of the World
$491.40
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2026
Summary
What does it mean for something new to begin? Since antiquity, philosophy has struggled to think about real beginnings without reducing them to continuations, repetitions, or hidden necessities. In Schelling’s Ages of the World, Matthew Nini engages with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s writings from 1809 to 1821, showing how this problem of beginning is both enacted and called into question in Schelling’s unfinished project The Ages of the World.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399564632 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399564633 |
| Author: | Matthew Nini |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | New Perspectives in Ontology |
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How can an absolute beginning be made? This question guides Matthew Nini’s erudite, lively, and significant study of the three first-known versions of Schelling’s unfinished and sui generis project, The Ages of the World. This “grand ruin” emerges as a breathtaking philosophical poem about how there is something rather than nothing. – Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University
About The Author
Matthew Nini
Matthew Nini is Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. Previously, he was fellow at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of The Book of Nocturnes (Spring Publications, 2025), and Fichte in Berlin (McGill-Queen’s, 2024).
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