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Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom
by F.W.J. Schelling
from Open Court Publishing Company

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• A very important book, a turning point in philosophy
  This is a tricky essay to read, in part because a large part of the essay is devoted to the task of differentiating Schelling's nuanced (but still fairly broad-strokes) account of the nature of human freedom from a number of other positions, not all of which have similar aims. At the same time, the essay is well worth the effort, both for the insight it gives into how to think the unthinkable and the non-rational, and for the influence of this essay on a wide range of thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud... more info

• ...The Beginning of the End of the Dialectical.
  This book is important for several reasons. I mention only a few here. Schelling, a great dialectical (in the modern 'German Idealist' sense) thinker/philosopher in these pages makes a crucial admission of the impossibility of overcoming (ancient) esotericism. (Hegel makes a similar admission in the great preface of the Phenomenology.) For the sake of this short note let us think of the esoteric as the unchanging. Schelling here admits that there is an unmediated 'basis' that accompanies us through all our... more info

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