Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Translator's Introduction

The Primacy of the Postulate

From Postulate to Deduction

Transcendental Deductions and The Idea of Nature

Logogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of Nature

Conclusion

Works Cited

Translator's Note xxxvii

Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition

Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition

Outline of the Whole

First Division

I. The Unconditioned in Nature

II. The Original Qualities and Actants in Nature

III. Actants and Their Combinations

IV. Inhibition and Stages of Development

V. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages

Second Division

First System

Second System

Third Possible System

Conclusions

Third Division

I. On the Concept of Excitability

II. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of Excitability

III. The Graduated Series of Stages in Nature

Appendix to Chapter III

IV. General Theory of the Chemical Process

V. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe

Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799)

§1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge

§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature

§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics

§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics

§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General

§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics

Appendix: Scientific Authors

Notes

English-German Glossary

German-English Glossary

Page Concordance

Index