The Absolute and the Event: Schelling after Heidegger

193 Pages·2020·1.985 MB·English

by  Emilio Carlo Corriero

THE ABSOLUTE AND
THE EVENT
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THE ABSOLUTE AND
THE EVENT
Schelling after Heidegger
EMILIO CARLO CORRIERO
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
1 A new beginning for Western philosophy 15
1 History of an idea 16
1.1 A historical-philological link 17
1.2 A theoretical affinity 22
2 From Heidegger to Schelling, via Nietzsche 26
2.1 System and freedom 30
2 Heidegger’s reading of Schelling 39
1 Essentia et existentia 39
2 Anxiety and the openness to being 52
3 The ‘metaphysics of evil’ and the ‘metaphysics of the will’:
The 1936 course and the 1941 seminar 58
4 Un-grund before the ‘history of being’: Seminar of 1927/8 65
3 The unyielding excess of Being 81
1 Will and Being 81
2 Thinking of the positive 92
4 The positive beyond the presence 105
1 Being that withdraws from the presence 105
2 Un-grund and unvordenkliches Seyn 110
3 The later Schelling and Aristotle 115
viii C ONTENTS
5 Being that can (make happen) Being 127
1 The Abgrund of Nothingness 127
2 Being as Physis? 134
3 Being and Knowledge: The transitive meaning of Being 140
Notes 155
Bibliography 171
Index 176
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first chapter partially reproduces my essay Schelling e Nietzsche. Un
percorso teoretico, while the rest of the book takes up and develops the theses
of the last section of my book Libertà e Conflitto.