This volume fills a lamentable gap in the philosophical literature by providing a collection of writings from the pivotal generation of thinkers between Kant and Hegel. It includes some of Hegel''s earliest critical writings--which reveal much about his thinking before the first mature exposition of his position in 1807--as well as Schelling''s justification of the new philosophy of nature against skeptical and religious attack.

This edition contains George di Giovanni’s extensive corrections, new preface, and thoroughly updated bibliography.