About this book
This book is the first collection of essays on Schelling in English that systematically explores the historical development of his philosophy. It addresses all four periods of Schelling's thought: his Transcendental Philosophy and Philosophy of Nature, his System of Identity [Identitätsphilosophie], his System of Freedom, and his Positive Philosophy. The essays examine the constellation of philosophical ideas that motivated the formation of Schelling's thought, as well as those later ones for which his philosophy laid the foundation. They therefore relate Schelling's philosophy to a broad range of systematic issues that are of importance to us today: metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, our modern conceptions of individual autonomy, philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and theology. The result is a new interpretation of Schelling's place in the history of German Idealism as an inventive and productive thinker.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Method of citation
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The early Schelling on the unconditioned
- Chapter 2 Schelling and skepticism
- Chapter 3 The concept of life in early Schelling
- Chapter 4 Knowledge and pleasure in the aesthetics of Schelling
- Chapter 5 "Exhibiting the particular in the universal": philosophical construction and intuition in Schelling's Philosophy of Identity (1801-1804)
- Chapter 6 "Identity of identity and non-identity": Schelling's path to the "absolute system of identity"
- Chapter 7 Idealism and freedom in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift
- Chapter 8 Beauty reconsidered: freedom and virtue in Schelling's aesthetics
- Chapter 9 Nature and freedom in Schelling and Adorno
- Chapter 10 Church and state: Schelling's political philosophy of religion
- Chapter 11 Schelling's critique of Hegel
- Bibliography
- Index