The letters between 1800 and 1802 show Schelling‹s personal relationships, mainly with Caroline Schlegel, his family, students and friends, among them Goethe, Schiller and the Romantics, thus providing an insight into the intellectual life of the time. They explain the background and the course of his sometimes intense literary feuds and philosophical polemics. Schelling‹s philosophical development in the direction of the identity system was fostered principally by his correspondence with Fichte, but also with Goethe. The volumes contain a total of 195 letters, among which is the philosophically significant correspondence with Carl August Eschenmayer, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Schelling‹s letters to Karl Joseph Windischmann and the letters from Andreas Röschlaub, Caroline Schlegel, Henrik Steffens and others. The explanatory annotations make it easy to understand the historical background and the numerous scientific and philosophical references.
