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
Introduction: The New Schelling by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman
1. Several Connections between Aesthetics and Therapeutics in Nineteenth-century Philosophy by Odo Marquard
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Schelling (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) by Slavoj Žižek
3. Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism: Schelling’s Idea of a Contraction of God and its Consequences for the Philosophy of History by Jurgen Habermas
4. Schelling and Nietzsche: Willing and Time by Judith Norman
5. Philosophy and the Experience of Construction by Alberto Toscano
6. ‘Philosophy become Genetic’: The Physics of the World Soul by lain Hamilton Grant
7. Schelling and Sartre on Being and Nothingness by Manfred Frank
8. Schelling’s Metaphysics of Evil by Joseph P. Lawrence
9. Schelling and Nagarjuna: the ‘Night Absolute’, Openness, and Ungrund by Michael Vater
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