Author: Iain Hamilton GrantPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847064329
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A lucid and crucial account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature, now available in paperback.
Author: Iain Hamilton GrantPhilosophies of Nature after Schelling
Author: Iain Hamilton GrantPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142761
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
'The whole of modern European philosophy', wrote F.W.J. Schelling in 1809, 'has this common deficiency - that nature does not exist for it.' Despite repeated echoes of Schelling's assessment throughout the natural sciences, and despite the philosophy of nature recently proposed but not completed by Gilles Deleuze, Philosophies of Nature After Schelling argues that Schelling's verdict remains accurate two hundred years later. Presenting a lucid account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature alongside those of his scientific contemporaries who pursued and furthered that work, this book does not simply aim to present Schelling's extravagant 'speculative physics' as an historical episode. Rather, Schelling's programme is presented as a viable and necessary corrective both to the rejection of metaphysics and the correlative 'antiphysics' at the ethical heart of contemporary philosophy.
Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
Author: Devin Zane ShawPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441193693
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Schelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom.
Idealism
Author: Jeremy DunhamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317491955
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Idealism is philosophy on a grand scale, combining micro and macroscopic problems into systematic accounts of everything from the nature of the universe to the particulars of human feeling. In consequence, it offers perspectives on everything from the natural to the social sciences, from ecology to critical theory. Heavily criticised by the dominant philosophies of the 20th Century, Idealism is now being reconsidered as a rich and untapped resource for contemporary philosophical arguments and concepts. This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of the major arguments and philosophers in the Idealist tradition. The book demonstrates how Idealist philosophy provides a fruitful way of understanding contemporary issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of science, political philosophy, scientific theory and critical social theory.
On the History of Modern Philosophy
Author: F. W. J. von SchellingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521408615
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
F. W. J. Schelling's On the History of Modern Philosophy surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure.
The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy
Author: G.W.F. HegelPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438406290
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this essay, Hegel attempted to show how Fichte's Science of Knowledge was an advance from the position of Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason, and how Schelling (and incidentally Hegel himself) had made a further advance from the position of Fichte. Hegel finds the idealism of Fichte too abstractly subjective and formalistic, and he tries to show how Schelling's philosophy of nature is the remedy for these weaknesses. But the most important philosophical content of the essay is probably to be found in his general introduction to these critical efforts where he deals with a number of problems about philosophical method in a way which is of general interest to philosophers, and not merely interesting to those who accept the Hegelian "dialectic method" which grew out of these first beginnings. Finally, the Difference essay is important in the development of "Nature-Philosophy" as a movement in the history of science.
System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von SchellingPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914589
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and seven years before Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
Schelling Now
Author: Jason M. WirthPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253344380
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Previously considered a way-station on the road to Hegel, F.W.J. von Schelling is today enjoying a renaissance among Continental philosophers and others. These 14 essays bring Schelling in tune with such luminaries as Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and Irigaray and situate him squarely in the centre of current themes.
Philosophies of Art & Beauty
Author: Albert HofstadterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226348113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism.
