Wolfram Hogrebe is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at The University of Bonn. He is the author of several books in German. This is his first book to be translated into English. Iain Hamilton Grant is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (Continuum 2006) and Die Natur der Natur (Merve 2018), co-editor, with Emilio Carlo Carriero, of Rivista di Estetica 74 (2020). He was awarded the Paolo Bozzi Prize for Ontology in 2019. He is currently translating Schelling’s On the World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings and working on a philosophy of ubiquitous creation. Jason M. Wirth is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Seattle University. His recent books include Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2019), Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY, 2017), Commiserating with Devastated Things (Fordham University Press, 2015) and Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (SUNY, 2015). He is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. He is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick as well as a work of ecological philosophy called Turtle Island Anarchy. Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the author of many books and articles in German. His publications in English include Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), The Limits of Epistemology (Polity Press, 2019), Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism (Continuum, 2011) and co-author with Slavoj Žižek of Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (Continuum, 2009).

• Translators’ Introduction: Synthetic Mantics, Iain Hamilton Grant and Jason M. WirthAuthor’s Foreword to the English EditionAuthor’s Foreword to the Italian Edition (2011)Genesis and PredicationForewordSchelling and Dante: an Introduction to Schelling’s ThinkingTransition to a Reconstruction of The Ages of the World: Metaphysics and the Theory of PredicationPredication and Genesis: The Ages of the WorldAfterwordPostface: The Ontology of Predication in Schelling’s The Ages of the World, Markus GabrielIndex

A lucid translation of a profound and important work. By showing that Schelling can be rewritten in analytic language, Hogrebe exposes the irrationality of the belief that algorithms can duplicate reality. Reason comes to its senses where it recognizes in its own ungrounded ground not just the recalcitrance of　the real but the challenge of our freedom.