Translation of F. W. J. Schelling’s System of Philosophy in General and of the Philosophy of Nature in Particular

FAIN: FT-291277-23

Dale E. Snow
Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21210-2601)

Research and writing of a sample translation of System of Philosophy in General (1804) by German philosopher F. W. J. Schelling (1774–1854).

I intend to prepare a 20-25 page sample translation from Schelling’s System of Philosophy in General, along with a proposal to a publisher for a contract for a translation of the entire work (444 pages in the original). The proposal will make the case for the importance of this work for scholarship in German Idealism, since it is Schelling’s last major untranslated work. It also has a potentially much wider significance, since it is focused on the philosophy of nature and the relationship of human beings to the natural world. In this moment of ecological crisis, reconsideration, and reimagining, it may be more productive than we yet fully appreciate to return to alternative visions of the true relationship of man and nature.