Description: Introduces the most fragmentary and neglected of Schelling's works without losing sight of a crucial philosophical question.
Brief description: Matthew Nini is Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia. Previously, he was fellow at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of The Book of Nocturnes (Spring Publications, 2025), and Fichte in Berlin (McGill-Queen's, 2024).
Review Quotes: How can an absolute beginning be made? This question guides Matthew Nini's erudite, lively, and significant study of the three first-known versions of Schelling's unfinished and sui generis project, The Ages of the World. This "grand ruin" emerges as a breathtaking philosophical poem about how there is something rather than nothing.--Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University