The New Schelling

by Norman, Judith; Welchman, Alistair

• ISBN13: 9780826469410
• ISBN10: 0826469418
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling (1775-1854) was a colleague of Hegel, Holderlin, Fichte, Goethe, Schlegel, and Schiller. Always a champion of Romanticism, Schelling advocated a philosophy which emphasized intuition over reason, which maintained aesthetics and the creative imagination to be of the highest value. at the same time, Schelling's concerns for the self and the rational make him a major precursor to existentialism and phenomenology. The New Schelling brings together a wide-ranging set of essays which elaborate the connections between Schelling and other thinkers--such as Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, Deleuze, and Lacan--and argue for the unexpected modernity of Schelling's work.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: The New Schelling	1	(12)
Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman
1. Several Connections between Aesthetics and Therapeutics in Nineteenth-century Philosophy	13	(17)
Odo Marquard
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Schelling (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock)	30	(13)
Slavoj Zizek
3. Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism: Schelling's Idea of a Contraction of God and its Consequences for the Philosophy of History	43	(47)
Jurgen Habermas
4. Schelling and Nietzsche: Willing and Time	90	(16)
Judith Norman
5. Philosophy and the Experience of Construction	106	(22)
Alberto Toscano
6. 'Philosophy become Genetic': The Physics of the World Soul	128	(23)
Iain Hamilton Grant
7. Schelling and Sartre on Being and Nothingness	151	(16)
Manfred Frank
8. Schelling's Metaphysics of Evil	167	(23)
Joseph P. Lawrence
9. Schelling and Nagarjuna: the Night Absolute', Openness, and Ungrund	190	(19)
Michael Vater
Selected Bibliography	209	(4)
Index	213