The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious

by S.J. McGrath

Book Overview

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is widely regarded as one of the most difficult and influential of German philosophers. In this book, S. J. McGrath not only makes Schelling's ideas accessible to a general audience, he uncovers the romantic philosopher's seminal role as the creator of a concept which shaped and defined late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century psychology: the concept of the unconscious.

McGrath shows how the unconscious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415492122
• ISBN13: 9780415492126
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"