Quite why this book – pre-ordered on the basis of how much I loved the accessibility of Wulf’s Invention of Nature – sat unread on my shelves for nigh on 3 years is a mystery. Especially as the subject – the German Romantics – is a source of endless fascination. A bigger mystery, perhaps, is […]| Lizzy’s Literary Life (Volume 2)
Friedrich Schelling was one of the late German Idealists and Romantics. Though he was a contemporary of many greats like Johann Fichte, Johann Herder (briefly), Hegel, and others, Schelling’s philosophy blossomed in the later period of German philosophy after Hegel. Although influenced by Kant and Fichte, he also attempted to shed the solipsism of Fichte […]| Discourses on Minerva