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bedrock of all philosophy.  His particular hope with this monograph isthat he enhances the perception of Schelling's Ages of the World as 'oneof the seminal works of materialism', divining in it a forerunner tothe works of Marx and Lacan among others.  The first part of the bookendeavours to explain the Ages of the World, while the second partcompares the reception of Schelling's work with the reception ofHegel's work using Lacan as the key to both.  As can be imagined fromhis brief description, the first two parts of this volume make a complexand demanding read.  The third part of the book (the 'related matters'of the title) is only relatively more accessible, but contains interestingdiscussions of both cyberspace and quantum physics which prefiguresome of Žižek's later work.