Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801

Nature and Identity

AvBenjamin Berger,Daniel Whistler

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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During the first decade of the nineteenth century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in three distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. C. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature.Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling's thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism.Additionally, Berger and Whistler demonstrate how the Schelling-Eschenmayer controversy raises important issues for the philosophy of nature today, including questions about the relation between identity and difference and the possibility of explaining sensible qualities in terms of quantity. This ultimately leads to the formulation of the most basic methodological question for the philosophy of nature: must this philosophy be based upon a prior consideration of consciousness as Eschenmayer insists or might it simply begin with nature itself? By arguing for the latter position, Schelling challenges us to entertain the possibility that the philosophy of nature is first philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-03
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Perspectives in Ontology
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474434409

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Benjamin Berger is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. He is editor of a special issue of Pli, on Schelling: Powers of the Idea, 2014. Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author and editor of numerous volumes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophy, including the three-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis, The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (EUP, 2020), The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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This excellent book focuses on a decisive moment in Schelling’s philosophical development [...] Berger and Whistler show how much the two philosophers learn from each other despite their fundamental disagreements, and one senses their friendship and mutual respect. This volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the development of German Idealism—but it also provides a model for dialogue and philosophical collaboration.

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Preface; AbbreviationsTranslators’ NoteIntroduction: Schelling and Eschenmayer in 1801Part I: TextsA. K. A. Eschenmayer, Spontaneity = World Soul, or the Highest Principle of Philosophy of NatureF.W.J. Schelling, On the True Concept of Philosophy of Nature and the Correct Way of Solving its ProblemsPart II: Commentaries1. Quality2. Potency3. Identity4. Drive5. AbstractionPart III: Appendices1. A. K. A. Eschenmayer and F.W.J. Schelling, Correspondence, 1799-18012. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Principles of Nature-Metaphysics Applied to Chemical and Medical Subjects [Extracts]3. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Deduction of the Living Organism [Extracts]4. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Review of Schelling’s First Outline and Introduction to the Outline