Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and the author of The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time, also published by SUNY Press. Patrick Burke is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University and is Dean of Gonzaga-in-Florence.

"[The book] would be of interest to students of both Merleau-Ponty and Schelling for the clash of the titans aspect: it is fascinating to see how thinkers from such different starting-points and traditions end up standing so close to one another on these fundamental questions, and thought-provoking, too, to see where unresolvable differences remain." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"The Barbarian Principle is an excellent contribution to the study of Schelling and Merleau-Ponty. For the Schelling scholar or student, it opens a new horizon for reconsidering Schelling's influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular (where much interest has been paid to Heidegger). For the Merleau-Ponty scholar or student, this volume demonstrates that Merleau-Ponty's engagement with German idealism extends well beyond the interrogation of Hegel or Kant." — Devin Zane Shaw, author of Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art

• AcknowledgmentsSiglaPart I. Orientations 1. The Reawakening of the Barbarian PrincipleJason M. Wirth2. Prefatory MeditationsPatrick BurkePart II. Schelling and Nature 3. Unfolding the Hidden Logos (Or: Much Ado about Nothing)Joseph P. Lawrence4. Schelling on Plato’s TimaeusKyriaki Goudeli5. On the Relation Between Nature and History in Schelling’s Freedom Essay and Spinoza’s Thelogico-Political TreatiseJeffrey A. Bernstein6. Eternal Times: Schelling on Creation, Contemporaneity, and the UnconsciousVasiliki TsakiriPart III. Merleau-Ponty and Schelling in ConversationSection 1: Overviews 7. Être sauvage and the Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of SchellingRobert Vallier8. Être brut or Nature: Merleau-Ponty Surveys SchellingJosep Maria BechSection 2: Particular Themes 9. Freedom as the Experience of Nature: Schelling and Merleau-Ponty on the Open Space in NatureAnnette Hilt10. Finding the Body’s Place in Nature: Merleau-Ponty on Schelling’s "Phenomenology of Pre-Reflective Being"Angelica Nuzzo11. Nature and Self-Knowledge: On Schelling’s Ambiguous Role in Merleau-Ponty’s The Concept of NatureCarolyn Culbertson12. Reading the Barbarous Source: Merleau-Ponty’s Structural History and SchellingStephen H. Watson13. Nature’s InsideBernard FlynnSection 3: Art and Nature 14. Listening for the Voice of the Light: Mythical Time through the Musical IdeaJessica Wiskus15. The Eye and the Spirit of Nature: Some Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling Concerning the Relationship between Art and NatureMarcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback16. The Art of Nature: On the Agony of the Will in Schelling and Merleau-PontyJason M. WirthContributorsIndex