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F. W. J. Schelling's "Ages Of The World": Acting Out Of Time, Jared Kenrick Nieft
F. W. J. Schelling's "Ages Of The World": Acting Out Of Time, Jared Kenrick Nieft
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This paper offers a new interpretation of Schelling's unfinished fragment, Die Weltalter, one that shows why and how he links the problem of divine creation to the modern crisis of Being and time. The growing sense of disorientation, isolation, indifference and loss that Schelling discovers in his own time parallels the metaphysical concerns and dilemmas of Die Weltalter. It is what draws the question of primordial time so close to our time and gives him the grounds to think them together. Cultural creation is inseparable from the enigma of divine creation. To fathom one is to divine the …