Adventures in Phenomenology
(September 2017)
Gaston Bachelard Eileen Rizo-Patron - Editor Edward S. Casey - Editor Jason M. Wirth - Editor
Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.
Like Schelling before him and Deleuze and Guattari after him, Gaston Bachelard made major philosophical contributions to the advancement of science and the arts. In addition to being a mathematician and epistemologist whose influential work in the philosophy of science is still being absorbed, Bachelard was also one of the most innova...(Read More)
Finalist – 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category
Engages the global ecological crisis through a radical rethinking of what it means to inhabit the earth.
Meditating on the work of American poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder and thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Eihei Dōgen, Jason M. Wirth draws out in...(Read More)
Reconsiders the contemporary relevance of Schelling’s radical philosophical and religious ecology.
The last two decades have seen a renaissance and reappraisal of Schelling’s remarkable body of philosophical work, moving beyond explications and historical study to begin thinking with and through Schelling, exploring and developing the fundamental issues at stake in his thought and their contemporary ...(Read More)
The Barbarian Principle
(September 2013)
Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature Jason M. Wirth - Editor Patrick Burke - Editor
Essays exploring a rich intersection between phenomenology and idealism with contemporary relevance.
Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schelling’s philosophy of nature. The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that...(Read More)
Appearing in English for the first time, Schelling’s 1842 lectures develop the idea that many philosophical concepts are born of religious-mythological notions.
Translated here into English for the first time, F. W. J. Schelling’s 1842 lectures on the Philosophy of Mythology are an early example of interdisciplinary thinking. In seeking to show the development of the concept of the divine Godhead in and thr...(Read More)
The Conspiracy of Life
(October 2003)
Meditations on Schelling and His Time Jason M. Wirth - Author
Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy.
The Conspiracy of Life offers a series of meditations on the philosophy of F. W. J. Schelling (1775–1854), a great—and greatly neglected—philosopher of life. Rather than construing him as a loopy mystic, or as an antiquated theologian, Jason M. Wirth attempts to locate Schelling as the belated contemporary of thinkers like He...(Read More)
The Ages of the World
(February 2000)
F. W. J. Schelling - Author Jason M. Wirth - Translation and introduction by
A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, Schelling 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 i...(Read More)
