Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
Author: Devin Zane Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441193693

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.

Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy

Schelling's Organic Form of Philosophy
Author: Bruce Matthews
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-01-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 143843412X

The life and ideas of F.W.J. Schelling are often overlooked in favor of the more familiar Kant, Fichte, or Hegel. What these three lack, however, is Schelling's evolving view of philosophy. Where others saw the possibility for a single, unflinching system of thought, Schelling was unafraid to question the foundations of his own ideas. In this book, Bruce Matthews argues that the organic view of philosophy is the fundamental idea behind Schelling's thought. Focusing in particular on Schelling's early writings, especially on Plato and Kant, Matthews explores Schelling's idea that any philosophical system must be perspectival and formed by each individual student of philosophy, providing a unique new understanding to an important and often overlooked figure in the history of philosophy.

Schelling's Philosophy

Schelling's Philosophy
Author: G. Anthony Bruno
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192542052

The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value of the thought of F. W. J. Schelling. In this volume leading scholars offer compelling reasons to regard Schelling as one of Kant's most incisive interpreters, a pioneering philosopher of nature, a resolute philosopher of human finitude and freedom, a nuanced thinker of the bounds of logic and self-consciousness, and perhaps Hegel's most effective critic. The volume provides a wide-ranging presentation of Schelling's original contribution to, and internal critique of, the basic insights of German idealism, his role in shaping the course of post-Kantian thought, and his sensitivity and innovative responses to questions of lasting metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and theological importance.

The Barbarian Principle

The Barbarian Principle
Author: Jason M. Wirth
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438448481

Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature. The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism.

Interpreting Schelling

Interpreting Schelling
Author: Lara Ostaric
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1107018927

The first volume on Schelling in English exploring the study of the history of philosophy and core systematic philosophical issues.

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling

Philosophies of Nature After Schelling
Author: Iain Hamilton Grant
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2008-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1847064329

A lucid and crucial account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature, now available in paperback.

Aesthetics and subjectivity

Aesthetics and subjectivity
Author: Andrew Bowie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847795129

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed, but asccesible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Ficthe and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Scleimacher, to Nietzsche. Develops the approaches to subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language in relation to new theoretical developments bridging the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. The huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy will make this an indispensible read

Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature

Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
Author: F. W. J. von Schelling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1988-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521357333

This is an English translation of Schelling's Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature (first published in 1797 and revised in 1803), one of the most significant works in the German tradition of philosophy of nature and early nineteenth-century philosophy of science. It stands in opposition to the Newtonian picture of matter as constituted by inert, impenetrable particles, and argues instead for matter as an equilibrium of active forces that engage in dynamic polar opposition to one another. In the revisions of 1803 Schelling incorporated this dialectical view into a neo-Platonic conception of an original unity divided upon itself. The text is of more than simply historical interest: its daring and original vision of nature, philosophy, and empirical science will prove absorbing reading for all philosophers concerned with post-Kantian German idealism, for scholars of German Romanticism, and for historians of science.

The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy

The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy
Author: G.W.F. Hegel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988-03-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438406290

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.

Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom

Philosophical Inquiries Into the Nature of Human Freedom
Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780875480251

Schelling was one of the foremost representatives of German Idealism, the equal of Fichte and Hegel. This is the only translation into English of one of his most important works.