Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World

F.W.J. Schelling, translated by Fiona Steinkamp

ISBN 10: 0791454088 / ISBN 13: 9780791454084

Edité par State University of New York Press, 2002

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Trade paperback.116pp. Suny Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy.

N° de réf. du vendeur 84350

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Clara: Or, on Nature's Connection to the Spirit World
• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0791454088
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780791454084
• Reliure: paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: like new
• État de la jaquette: none
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Part novella, part philosophy, Clara was Schelling's most popular work during his lifetime, and appears here in English for the first time.

This is the first English translation of Schelling's novel, most likely written after the death of his first wife, Caroline, the former wife of August Wilhelm Schlegel. Although only a fragment, Clara remains unique. Part novella, part philosophical tome, its central theme is the connection between this world and the next. Schelling masterfully weaves together his knowledge of animal magnetism, literary techniques, and his doctrine of the potencies to make his philosophy accessible to all.

Steinkamp addresses the main issues concerning the dating of the work-many commentators have deemed Clara to be a sketch for Schelling's The Ages of the World or an outline for the third, missing book of that work-and provides a short biography of Schelling with particular emphasis on events claimed to play a role in the conception of Clara, such as the deaths of both Caroline and her daughter, Auguste. She also shows how passages in Clara are strikingly similar to the content of Schelling's touching letters mourning Caroline, written to Pauline, the daughter of Caroline's best friend and the woman who would become his second wife. Clara, strongly influenced by the Romantic movement, is an early illustration of Schelling's attempt to unite his positive and negative philosophy.

À propos de l?auteur

Fiona Steinkamp is Professor of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh.