Schelling und die Philosophie der Romantik : ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte des deutschen Geistes (2 volume set)

Ludwig Noack

E.S. Mittler und Sohn, Berlin, 1859

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by A.O. Lovejoy, then later by noted medical scholar Owen Hannaway.] 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Gothic German text. Poor bindings. Lacking some spine cloth. Tears to edges. Gutters weakened. Contemporary signatures of Lovejoy on verso. Sold with all faults. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Arthur O. Lovejoy (1873-1962) was a leading philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century. He is perhaps best known today for his role in establishing the principles of academic freedom (through his work in founding the AAUP) and for founding the Journal of the History of Ideas. He was Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins from 1910 to 1938, and continued to write and be active in the History of Ideas Club until his death in 1962. From 1915 to 1940 he was second in stature within American philosophy only to John Dewey, and while he is mainly studied today by intellectual historians, his early work on pragmatism and philosophy of mind follows an analytic method that has aged quite well. The Great Chain of Being (1936) remains an acknowledged classic in the history of ideas. 

Dr. Owen Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).