The New Schelling

230 Pages·2004·13.522 MB·English

by  Alistair Welchman, Judith Norman

THE NEW SCHELLING
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THE NEW SCHELLING
Edited by
JUDITH NORMAN AND
AL-ISTAIR WELCH MAIM
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CONTENTS
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction: The New Schelling 1
Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman
1. Several Connections between Aesthetics and Therapeutics
in Nineteenth-century Philosophy 13
Odo Marquard
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Schelling
(But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) 30
Slavoj Zizek
3. Dialectical Idealism in Transition to Materialism: Schelling's
Idea of a Contraction of God and its Consequences for the
Philosophy of History 43
Jilrgen Habermas
4. Schelling and Nietzsche: Willing and Time 90
Judith Norman
5. Philosophy and the Experience of Construction 106
Alberto Toscano
6. 'Philosophy become Genetic': The Physics of the World Soul 128
lain Hamilton Grant
7. Schelling and Sartre on Being and Nothingness 151
Manfred Frank
8. Schelling's Metaphysics of Evil 167
Joseph P. Lawrence
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9. Schelling and Nagarjuna: the 'Night Absolute', Openness,
and Ungrund 190
Michael Vater
Selected Bibliography 209
Index 213
CONTRIBUTORS
Manfred Frank is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tubingen in
Germany. He has written more than 130 books and articles that have been
translated into over 20 languages. His writings range over themes in German
and French philosophy and literature, and philosophical works on aesthetics
and subjectivity. His books include Der umndliche Mangel an Sein. Schellings
Hegelkritik und die Anfange der Marxschen Dialektik (Suhrkamp, 1975/Fink,
1992); What is Neostructuralism? (University of Minnesota Press, 1989); Stil
in der Philosophie (Reclam, 1992); and The Subject and the Text. Essays on
Literary Theory and Philosophy (Cambridge, 1997).
Iain Hamilton Grant is currently completing a book-length study of
Schelling's speculative physics, specifically with a view challenging current
philosophical assumptions concerning antiphysics, on the one hand, and the
end of metaphysics on the other. He has written widely on post-Kantian
European philosophy (Kant, Schelling, Deleuze, Lyotard) as well as on the
physical sciences and technology. He is the translator of works by Lyotard
and Baudrillard. He is a senior lecturer in philosophy, science and tech-
nology at the University of the West of England, UK.
Jiirgen Habermas is a philosopher and sociologist and the foremost living
representative of the Frankfurt School of Marxist inflected social theorists.
He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and
Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and has written widely
on ethics, politics, history and sociology. Some of his best-known works
include Knowledge and Human Interests (Beacon, 1971); Legitimation Crisis
(Beacon, 1975); Theory of Communicative Action (2 vols, Beacon, 1981-4); The
Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (MIT Press, 1989); Theory and
Practice (Beacon, 1989); and Between Facts and Norms (MIT Press, 1996).
Joseph Lawrence studied philosophy at Tubingen University under Walter
Schulz, Dieter Jaehnig, and Riidiger Bubner, and is now Professor of Phi-
losophy at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. His
long-term interests revolve around Schelling's concept of 'philosophical
religion', and he has written widely on both Greek and German philosophy,
as well as on philosophy and literature. He is the author of Schellings Phil-
osophie des ewigen Anfangs (Konigshausen & Neumann, 1989), and is currently
finishing a book on Socrates.
Odo Marquard is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University
of Giessen. He has written widely in defence of scepticism as well as on
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aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the philosophy
of myth, and hermeneutics. Some of his writings include: Farewell to Matters
of Principle (Oxford, 1989); In Defense of the Accidental: Philosophical Studies
(Oxford, 1991); Aesthetica und Anaesthetica (Schoningh, 1989, 1994); Skepsis
und Zustimmung (Reclam, 1994, 1995); and Gliick im Ungluck (Fink, 1995,
1996).
Judith Norman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Uni-
versity in Texas. Some of her recent articles include: 'Nietzsche and Early
Romanticism', m Journal of the History of Ideas (2002); The Logic of Longing:
Schelling's Philosophy of Will' in British Journal for the History of Philosophy
(2002); and 'Hegel and the German Romantics' in Hegel and the Arts, ed.
Stephen Houlgate (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She has
published translations of Schelling and Nietzsche, and is currently trans-
lating Nietzsche's late works for Cambridge University Press.
Alberto Toscano received his doctorate from the University of Warwick,
for a work entitled The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation
between Kant and Deleuze. A former editor of Pli: The Warwick Journal of
Philosophy, he is the translator and interlocutor of Alain Badiou's Le Siecle/The
Century (Seuil, 2003), and the editor and translator, with Ray Brassier, of
Alain Badiou's Theoretical Writings (Continuum, 2004), and, with Nina
Power, of Badiou's On Beckett (Clinamen, 2003). He is the author of articles
on the work of Deleuze, Simondon and Badiou. He is currently a Lecturer in
Sociology at Goldsmiths College. Email: [email protected].
Michael Vater received his doctorate from Yale University, and is now
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. He has translated
texts on Schelling's identity philosophy, including: Bruno, or On the Natural
and the Divine Principle of Things (SUNY, 1984) and 'Presentation of My
System of Philosophy (1801)' and 'Further Presentations from the System of
Philosophy' (1802) in Philosophical Forum, XXXI (2001). He has edited
volumes on Schelling and Hegel, and studied Tibetan Buddhism with North
American and Indian teachers.
Alistair Welchman has degrees in philosophy and cognitive science from
the Universities of Oxford, Warwick and Sussex. He has published a number
of articles on Deleuze, Kant and the intersection of European thought with
science and technology and has worked for the last several years in the
commercial world applying biomorphic computational techniques.
Slavoj £izek teaches at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of
Ljubljana (Slovenia). He has held posts at Paris-VIII (in psychoanalysis);
Cardozo Law School, Columbia, Princeton and the New School for Social
Research, and ran for President of the Republic of Slovenia in 1990. He has
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written widely on philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and political theory,
and film criticism. His books include: The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso,
1989); Looking Awry (MIT Press, 1991); Tarrying With the Negative (Duke
University Press, 1993); The Indivisible Remainder (Verso, 1996); The Ticklish
Subject (Verso, 1999); Enjoy Your Symptom! (Routledge, 1992).