Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Panteísmo y panenteísmo: Schelling, Schlegel y la polémica en torno al panteísmo

by Ana Carrasco-Conde

Since the controversy held between Jacobi and Mendelssohn in 1785 about the assumption Spinozism of Lessing, has been... more Since the controversy held between Jacobi and Mendelssohn in 1785 about the assumption Spinozism of Lessing, has been considered that system of reason, fatalism and pantheism (and with it Spinozism as the most perfect way) constitute a triad of inseparable concepts, hence the assertion key of Schlegel in Indierbuch: «der Pantheismus ist das System der reinen Vernunft» (KA VIII, 249; Qu. by Schelling in SW I/VII 339, n. a; 117). In this way, Schelling is within Mendelssohn and Jacobi’s Pantheismusstreit: a controversy whose ghost, personified by Schlegel, appears in the pages of Freiheitsschrift.

El doble movimiento de la libertad: Fichte y Schelling

by Ana Carrasco-Conde

Sistema de los tiempos. Schelling y la historicidad del absoluto

by Ana Carrasco-Conde

The question regarding the Historicity (Geschichtlichkeit) of the Absolute, of Time and of the course of history... more The question regarding the Historicity (Geschichtlichkeit) of the Absolute, of Time and of the course of history causes Schelling to turn every scientific presentation on the Absolute into a story in which the Past, Present and the Future come together in reverberations of a process-oriented, Historical Totality that should be epically narrated. These reverberations outline an understanding of Time that, far from being understood as a succession of "now-points", present the Past (Vergangenheit) as that which never ceased to be: to ti en einai (quod quid erat esse); the Present (Gegenwart) as "Gegen-wart", that is, like a "being vigilant" (warten) "against" (gegen); and the Future (Zukunft) as that which the Present achieves, once nurtured by the Past itself: the 'what's to come' (Zu-kunft). The dynamic of this system of time is the intended explanation; a dynamic in which the Absolute shows itself as pure Historicity (Geschichlichkeit).

Poetic Imagination in the Speculative Philosophies of Plato, Schelling, and Whitehead

by Matthew David Segall

sketching the speculative platonism of Schelling and Whitehead as it relates to the poetic imagination.

On Bruno Latour's 'Political Ecology' (pdf)

by Adrian Wilding

Published in Cosmos and History, Vol 6, No 1 (2010)

The Future of Speculation?

by Wesley Phillips

in Cosmos and History, Vol 8, No 1 (2012)

The emergence of a philosophical movement amidst the precarious situation of 'continental philosophy' is today... more The emergence of a philosophical movement amidst the precarious situation of 'continental philosophy' is today notable. Whilst welcoming a turn to questions of speculation and realism, this article will contend that speculative realism has misplaced the concept of speculation. Its quasi-naturalism prevents it from relating ‘necessary contingency' to any future-oriented task. What, then, is the future of speculative realism? I will examine the extent to which the phenomenon may at least prompt a self-problematisation of historical materialism, amidst the ongoing problem historical totalisation.

My case study is Iain Hamilton Grant's Philosophies of Nature After Schelling (2006), for the reason that it allows for a clear comparison between ‘Schellingian naturephilosophy' and its competing, Hegelian and Hegelian-Marxist alternatives. Hegel's speculative philosophy of history faces a set of problems of its own. In contrast to Grant's reading of Schelling, an examination of the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and the middle Schelling can address some of these problems. An alternative future to research on speculation is outlined.

Review: Friedrich, Hans-Joachim: Der Ungrund der Freiheit im Denken von Böhme, Schelling und Heidegger

by Ernst-Otto Onnasch

Review: Friedrich, Hans-Joachim: Der Ungrund der Freiheit im Denken von Böhme, Schelling und Heideggermore Review: Friedrich, Hans-Joachim: Der Ungrund der Freiheit im Denken von Böhme, Schelling und Heidegger
Schellingiana 24, fromman-holzboog: Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2009, in: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73/4 (2011), p. 753–754

Review: Schelling: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, Reihe III: Briefe, Bd. 2

by Ernst-Otto Onnasch

Review: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, Reihe III: Briefe, Bd. 2, Briefwechsel... more Review: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, Reihe III: Briefe, Bd. 2, Briefwechsel 1800-1802. Herausgegeben von Thomas Kisser. Unter Mitwirkung von Walter Schieche und Alois Wieshuber. Stuttgart 2010. 2 Teilbände. XVII, XII, 953 S., in: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 73/4 (2011), p. 764–766.

Vers une philosophie schellingienne de la créativité. Subjectivité et folie à l'aune de Slavoj Žižek

by Joseph Carew

Forthcoming in Interpretationes. N° 2 (2012): Créativié et subjectivité

This article is an attempt to reactualize F. W. J. schelling by taking seriously and turning inside out Heidegger’s... more This article is an attempt to reactualize F. W. J. schelling by taking seriously and turning inside out Heidegger’s radical claim that schelling’s philosophy of freedom is the culmination (Gipfel) of the German idealist tradition. First, the author uses slavoj Žižek’s work in order to give weight to Heidegger’s controversial claim. By interpreting the schellingian logic of the ground (Grund) as an attempt to found transcendental freedom, Žižek is lead to declare that the schelling of the period of the  Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the Ages of the World radicalizes  the incompleteness of reality as brought forth by the kantian descriptions of freedom. Then, the author  tries to show that Žižek does not go far enough. Although the late schelling develops an account of what could be called an “ontological passage through madness”, it is only a moment within the processional totality of being. The image of the artist shows us a point of transfiguration (Verklärungspunkt) where the impetuous “unruliness” at the foundation of subjectivity is converted into a new order of being by means of an activity of free and unpredictable creation. This does not only occur in the symbolic; more strongly, it is an immanent, transfigurative event in the world.

The Grundlogik of German Idealism: The Ambiguity of the Hegel-Schelling Relation in Slavoj Žižek

by Joseph Carew

International Journal of Žižek Studies. Vol 5, N° 1 (2011)

Following a series of textual gestures which suggest that Schelling is the culmination of the German Idealist... more Following a series of textual gestures which suggest that Schelling is the culmination of the German Idealist tradition, this essay is an attempt to articulate the ambiguity of the Hegel-Schelling relationship in Slavoj Žižek's work and its productive potential. Characterizing his own dialectical materialism again and again as Hegelian, but never a Schellingian project, Žižek often belies the central role played by late Schelling of the Freiheitsschrift and the Weltalter in the self-unfolding logic of the tradition. But why is there such an oscillation? Describing the Grundlogik of German Idealism as the radical ontological incompletion of reality announced by the abyss of freedom of the Kantian subject, Žižek's own philosophy suggests that neither Hegel nor Schelling were able of themselves to fully articulate the consequences of the deadlock of freedom. Yet, what I argue is that it is only by an implicit retroactive reconstruction of the inner logic of post-Kantian philosophy, an aprés-coup unearthing of philosophical possibilities hidden within these two thinkers made possible by psychoanalysis, that Žižek is able to present his reading of the radical nature of subjectivity in German Idealism. By unpacking this latent reconstruction I will not only demonstrate the consistency and comprehensiveness that a Žižekian reading of the history of German Idealism can display but also the complex intertwining of Schellingian ontology and Hegelian logic at the core of Žižek's own parallax ontology.

Le critiche di Fichte alla Naturphilosophie negli anni dell’insegnamento all’Università di Berlino, in “Filosofia”, anno LV, Fasc.I, Gennaio – Aprile 2004, pp.1-32.

by Alessandro Bertinetto

History or Counter-Tradition? The System of Freedom After Walter Benjamin

by Wesley Phillips

published in Critical Horizons, vol. 11, no. 1, 2010

In this article I seek to interpret Walter Benjamin in light of the “system programme” of German Idealism in order to... more In this article I seek to interpret Walter Benjamin in light of the “system programme” of German Idealism in order to confront an antinomy of con- temporary radical thought. Benjamin has usually been regarded as an anti-Hegelian thinker of the exception. Reading him against the grain, I draw out a concept of counter-tradition that eschews the opposition of intra-historical progress and extra-historical exception. The philological inspiration is a book by Franz Joseph Molitor, a student of Schelling and source for Benjamin: The Philosophy of History, or, On Tradition.

Melancholy Science? Critical Theory and German Idealism Reconsidered

by Wesley Phillips

published in Telos, no. 156, Winter 2011/12

During the 1960s, Adorno was reproached with the charge of resignation – echoes of which have continued in recent... more During the 1960s, Adorno was reproached with the charge of resignation – echoes of which have continued in recent radical thought. In what is the most substantial critique of Adorno to date, Gillian Rose initially sympathised with his ‘melancholy science’, only to reject its ‘neo-Kantian Marxism’ just three years later – the problem being that the melancholy science involves a masochistically infinite task, leading to a methodological detachment from the social object. Whilst following Rose’s orientation toward German idealism – for its critique of neo-Kantianism and methodologism – this article argues that a return to Hegel alone is insufficient. Rather, a dialectic of Hegel and his rival Schelling suggests an account of determinate negation that avoids Melancholia without rejoicing in the actuality of world spirit. This is made possible by way of an affinity between conceptions of melancholy (as Trauer) and history in Schelling and Benjamin, from whom Adorno develops his traurige Wissenschaft.

Affectivity, Transparency, Rapport: Circumscribing the Fichtean Unconscious

by f. scott scribner

Published in Idealistic Studies, 2002

This paper works to curcumscribe the notion of the unconscious in the work of Fichte. This paper works to curcumscribe the notion of the unconscious in the work of Fichte.

A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's Ages of the World

by f. scott scribner

Published in the collection: Schelling Now, Ed. Jason M. Wirth. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005.

This paper works to marshal the conceptual resources of Schelling's 'Ages of the World' project to better articulate... more This paper works to marshal the conceptual resources of Schelling's 'Ages of the World' project to better articulate
the fate of the imagination in the age of mass media technology. It also makes use of such 20th C. figures as Virilio, Derrida and Deleuze. 

Idealism's Corpse or the Prosthetics of Suicide: Technologies of Retrieval in Fichte and Schelling

by f. scott scribner

Published in the journal "Idealistic Studies," Spring-Summer, 2011

This paper uses Maurice Blanchot's image of the corpse as a trope by which to offer a unique quasi-material reading of... more This paper uses Maurice Blanchot's image of the corpse as a trope by which to offer a unique quasi-material reading of the German Idealist notion of speculative suicide. And it's method of interpretative retrieval, like these idealists, works to think the relevance of idealism today by affirming the spirit against the letter. The paradox of suicide – that we aspire to be witness to our own death - presents itself as a double, as interpreted in works of Fichte and Schelling. This double, the very core of speculative aspiration, is essentially a temporal other whose prosthetic character suggests that the speculative power of spirit is simultanously technological, and that the limit-condition of suicide be found not in an ethereal speculative unity but rather in the intractable materiality of our own corporeal remains.

On The Interval Between Negative and Positive Philosophy In Schelling's Thought

by Jeffrey Bernstein

On The Relation Of Nature And History In Schelling's _Freiheitschrift_ and Spinoza's _Theological-Political Treatise_

by Jeffrey Bernstein

Forthcoming in _The Barbarian Principle_ eds. Jason Wirth and Patrick Burke (SUNY Press)

Philosophy of History as the History of Philosophy in Schelling's System of Transcendental Idealism

by Jeffrey Bernstein

Ecstasy of Reason, Crisis of Reason: Schelling and Absolute Difference

by Christopher Groves