Schelling's Philosophy: Freedom, Nature, and Systematicity

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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. Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction • G. Anthony Bruno I. SCHELLING’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY 1. Nature as the World of Action, Not of Speculation: Schelling’s Critique of Kant’s Postulates in His Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism • Lara Ostaric 2. Schelling’s Romanticism: Traces of Novalis in Schelling’s Philosophy • Joan Steigerwald II. SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE 3. Freedom as Productivity in Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature • Naomi Fisher 4. From World-Soul to Universal Organism: Maimon’s Hypothesis and Schelling’s Physicalization of a Platonic-Kabbalistic Concept • Paul Franks 5. Deus Sive Vernunft: Schelling’s Transformation of Spinoza’s God • Yitzhak Y. Melamed 6. Schelling on Eternal Choice and the Temporal Order of Nature • Brady Bowman III. SCHELLING’S PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM 7. Schelling on the Compatibility of Freedom and Systematicity • Markus Gabriel 8. The Personal, Evil, and the Possibility of Philosophy in Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift • Richard Velkley 9. Nature, Freedom, and Gender in Schelling • Alison Stone 10. The Facticity of Time: Conceiving Schelling’s Idealism of Ages • G. Anthony Bruno IV. SCHELLING’S LATE PHILOSOPHY 11. Thought’s Indebtedness to Being: From Kant’s Beweisgrund to Schelling’s Quelle • Sebastian Gardner 12. An ‘Ethics for the Transition’: Schelling’s Critique of Negative Philosophy and Its Significance for Environmental Thought • Dalia Nassar Index