1st Edition

Nature, Speculation and the Return to Schelling

Edited By Tyler Tritten, Daniel Whistler Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

Two decades ago, Schelling first resurfaced in Žižek’s Indivisible Remainder , and the same argumentative move of redeploying Schellingian themes for contemporary ends has continued to play a significant role in critical theory since (Markus Gabriel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Jean-Luc Nancy). All the articles in this volume attempt to take seriously the idea of Schelling as a contemporary... Read more

1. Editorial Introduction: Schellingian Experiments in Speculation  2. Vitality or Weakness? On the Place of Nature in Recent Materialist Philosophy  3. Lamps, Rainbows and Horizons: Spatializing Knowledge in Naturphilosophical Epistemology  4. Space Philosophy: Schelling and the Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century  5. Nature’s Capacities: Schelling and Contemporary Power-Based Ontologies  6. The Parallax of Individuation: Simondon and Schelling  7. Naturalism and Symbolism  8. Schelling’s Shadow: Merleau-Ponty’s Late Concept of Nature  9. Is the Late Schelling Still Doing Nature- Philosophy?  10. Against Kant: Toward an Inverted Transcendentalism or a Philosophy of the Doctrinal  11. On the Possibility of Speculative Ethical Absolutes after Kant: Returning to Schelling through the Frailties of Meillassoux and Badiou

Biography

Tyler Tritten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, USA, and his most recent book is The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact (2017).



Daniel Whistler is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language (2013).