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Book SynopsisPlaces Schelling at the core of contemporary philosophical debates
Trade ReviewFor too long Schelling's philosophy has been seen as no more than a transition from the philosophies of Kant and Fichte to that of Hegel. In recent years, however, Schelling's philosophy has begun to be recognized as worthy of study in its own right. Complementing The New Schelling (2004), ed. by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman, this volume of 14 essays, edited by Wirth (Oglethorpe Univ.), constitutes a crucial further step in establishing the importance and contemporary relevance of Schelling's philosophy. Schelling Now is divided into three sections: New Approaches, Rethinking Concepts, and Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy. Although this last section demonstrates the relevance of Schelling's philosophy to that of Heidegger, Merleau—Ponty, Levinas, Nancy, and Nishitani, none of the essays effectively argues that Schelling has insights not achieved by those other thinkers or that his philosophy can be seen as having advanced, avant la lettre, beyond theirs. Moreover, Schelling's philosophy has not yet been brought into the conversation of analytic philosophy. Not until these occur will it be fully rehabilitated. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.J. M. Fritzman, Lewis and Clark College, 2005sep CHOICE
"For too long Schelling's philosophy has been seen as no more than a transition from the philosophies of Kant and Fichte to that of Hegel. In recent years, however, Schelling's philosophy has begun to be recognized as worthy of study in its own right.... [T]his volume of 14 essays, edited by Wirth (Oglethorpe Univ.), constitutes a crucial further step in establishing the importance and contemporary relevance of Schelling's philosophy." —Choice, September 2005
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Schelling Now Jason M. Wirth
Part 1. New Approaches
1. Philosophical Religion and the Quest for Authenticity Joseph P. Lawrence
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Schelling (but Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) Slavoj iek
3. Moving Images of Eternity: Powers in Difference Stephen David Ross
4. The Work of Experience: Schelling on a Thinking beyond Image and Concept Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
5. Animalization: Schelling and the Problem of Expressivity Jason M. Wirth
Part 2. Rethinking Contexts
6. God's Footstool: A Note on the Source for Schelling's Description of the Olympian Zeus in the 1811 Draft of The Ages of the World David Farrell Krell
7. The Electromagnetic Orgasm and the Narrative of Primordiality in Schelling's 1815 Cosmic History Martin Wallen
8. A Monstrous Absolute: Schelling, Kant, and the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Theodore D. George
9. A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's Ages of the World F. Scott Scribner
Part 3. Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy
10. Reading Schelling after Heidegger: The Freedom of Cryptic Dialogue Peter Warnek
11. Creativity and the Unconscious in Merleau-Ponty and Schelling Patrick Burke
12: Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to Schelling Fiona Steinkamp
13. "Giving Way to... Freedom": A Note after Nancy and Schelling Benjamin S. Pryor
14. The Problem of Evil and Difference: A Report on Nishitani's Relationship to Schelling Eiko Hanaoka
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