Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Original Lectures

FAIN: RQ-286932-22

University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-4635)
John Betz (Project Director: December 2021 to present)

Preparation for print publication of a translation and critical edition of the 1831 and 1832 Munich lectures by German philosopher Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854). (36 months)

The purpose of this project is to provide a complete, historical-critical introduction and translation into English of Schelling's original 1831 and 1832 Munich lectures on the Philosophy of Revelation. Schelling is universally regarded as one of the great philosophers of the German tradition, whose early and middle works have been translated into countless languages. To this day, however, we still have no edition of these important lectures in English, which represent the culmination and arguably the crowning achievement of his thought. We thus propose this edition in order to fill what we see as a major lacuna in the humanities and in the study of the philosophy of religion in particular.