The Ages of the World (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Offering a new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, Schelling forges a great heroic poem, a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about postmodernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, this book 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.