Commission for the Publication of the Works of Schelling
Next to Fichte and Hegel, Schelling is the main figure in philosophy after Kant. He established German idealism as a philosophy of nature, art and freedom; in his later thinking, however, he brought up the facticity of the natural and particularly of the historical world from the perspective of historical and religious philosophy.
The Commission is responsible for the historical critical edition of Schelling’s writings, i.e. his works, the texts from his estate, his correspondence and the transcripts of his university lectures. The Commission is particularly concerned to provide an extensive commentary on the texts. With its archives and its library the Commission forms a major institution for research into philosophy. It cooperates closely with the International Schelling Society and with research and teaching at universities, in particular with the Philosophical Seminars of the universities in Munich and Freiburg im Breisgau and with the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna.
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854).
Medaillon on the wall of the main building of Munich University.