Kirill Chepurin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is a scholar of Idealism and Romanticism, philosophy of religion, and critical theory and the co-editor of Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology.

Bliss Against the World will radically transform not just Schelling scholarship, but equally our very idea of modernity. Each page is pregnant with insights that upset our preconceptions about the constitution of the modern worldand, taken together, they announce Chepurin as one of the most interesting voices currently writing on German Idealism and Romanticism, secularity and Christianity, and the ways in which we try to justify this world we inhabit.

• General Introduction: Modernity, Theodicy, Bliss Part I Why Must This World Be? Chapter 1: The General Christian Contradiction Interlude I: Ordo quis datus? Chapter 2: The Demiurgic Subject Interlude II: "Abyss of Repose and Inactivity" Chapter 3: Evil Is but a Shadow Part II The Dark Ground Introduction to Part II: On Schelling's Post-1809 System Narrative Chapter 4: Universal Ekstasis; or, Fallenness and Method Chapter 5: Universal Spiral Interlude III: Clock Time as Fallen Time Chapter 6: The Race to Bliss: Assembling Global Humanity Conclusion: Bliss Against Theodicy

Kirill Chepurin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is a scholar of Idealism and Romanticism, philosophy of religion, and critical theory and the co-editor of Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology.

Bliss Against the World will radically transform not just Schelling scholarship, but equally our very idea of modernity. Each page is pregnant with insights that upset our preconceptions about the constitution of the modern worldand, taken together, they announce Chepurin as one of the most interesting voices currently writing on German Idealism and Romanticism, secularity and Christianity, and the ways in which we try to justify this world we inhabit.

• General Introduction: Modernity, Theodicy, Bliss Part I Why Must This World Be? Chapter 1: The General Christian Contradiction Interlude I: Ordo quis datus? Chapter 2: The Demiurgic Subject Interlude II: "Abyss of Repose and Inactivity" Chapter 3: Evil Is but a Shadow Part II The Dark Ground Introduction to Part II: On Schelling's Post-1809 System Narrative Chapter 4: Universal Ekstasis; or, Fallenness and Method Chapter 5: Universal Spiral Interlude III: Clock Time as Fallen Time Chapter 6: The Race to Bliss: Assembling Global Humanity Conclusion: Bliss Against Theodicy

Kirill Chepurin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. He is a scholar of Idealism and Romanticism, philosophy of religion, and critical theory and the co-editor of Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology.

Bliss Against the World will radically transform not just Schelling scholarship, but equally our very idea of modernity. Each page is pregnant with insights that upset our preconceptions about the constitution of the modern worldand, taken together, they announce Chepurin as one of the most interesting voices currently writing on German Idealism and Romanticism, secularity and Christianity, and the ways in which we try to justify this world we inhabit.

• General Introduction: Modernity, Theodicy, Bliss Part I Why Must This World Be? Chapter 1: The General Christian Contradiction Interlude I: Ordo quis datus? Chapter 2: The Demiurgic Subject Interlude II: "Abyss of Repose and Inactivity" Chapter 3: Evil Is but a Shadow Part II The Dark Ground Introduction to Part II: On Schelling's Post-1809 System Narrative Chapter 4: Universal Ekstasis; or, Fallenness and Method Chapter 5: Universal Spiral Interlude III: Clock Time as Fallen Time Chapter 6: The Race to Bliss: Assembling Global Humanity Conclusion: Bliss Against Theodicy