Schelling Now

Jason M. Wirth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy, Communications, and Fine Arts Division at Oglethorpe University. He is author of Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time and translator of Schelling's Ages of the World.

"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. 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.September 2005"—Choice

• Introduction: Schelling NowJason M. WirthPart 1. New Approaches1. Philosophical Religion and the Quest for AuthenticityJoseph P. Lawrence2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Schelling (but Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) Slavoj Žižek3. Moving Images of Eternity: Powers in DifferenceStephen David Ross4. The Work of Experience: Schelling on a Thinking beyond Image and ConceptMarcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback5. Animalization: Schelling and the Problem of ExpressivityJason M. WirthPart 2. Rethinking Contexts6. 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 WorldDavid Farrell Krell7. The Electromagnetic Orgasm and the Narrative of Primordiality in Schelling's 1815 Cosmic HistoryMartin Wallen8. A Monstrous Absolute: Schelling, Kant, and the Poetic Turn in PhilosophyTheodore D. George9. A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's Ages of the WorldF. Scott ScribnerPart 3. Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy10. Reading Schelling after Heidegger: The Freedom of Cryptic DialoguePeter Warnek11. Creativity and the Unconscious in Merleau-Ponty and SchellingPatrick Burke12: Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to SchellingFiona Steinkamp13. "Giving Way to . . . Freedom": A Note after Nancy and SchellingBenjamin S. Pryor14. The Problem of Evil and Difference: A Report on Nishitani's Relationship to SchellingEiko HanaokaFurther ReadingContributorsIndex