Rough draft of research paper on Schelling’s Contemporary Re-Emergence

I’ve just finished the rough draft of a comprehensive exam on the context of Schelling’s thought and the reasons for his contemporary resurgence (a list of recent scholarship). The most difficult section to write was definitely the one on the difference between he and Hegel’s approaches. I didn’t want to caricature Hegel, but nor did I want to ignore the significance of their divergence on the limits of rational system. We’ll see if I was able to pull it off. I’ve posted each section separately and made the section headings in the table of contents below hyperlinks that will lead you to that section. I’ve tentatively titled the essay The Re-Emergence of Schelling: Philosophy in a Time of Emergency. You’ll find the Bibliography below. For a PDF of the whole document, click: The Re-Emergence of Schelling Philosophy in a Time of Emergency.

1. Preface    2
2. Philosophical biography    3
3. Literature review    15
4. The Difference between Hegel’s and Schelling’s system of philosophy    26
   1. 1st Fiction: The animism of the Concept    30
   2. 2nd Fiction: The release (Entlassen) of logic into nature    34
   3. Schelling’s positive philosophy    38
5. Metaphysically (un)grounding the natural sciences    39
6. The nature of human freedom    50
7. Bibliography   58

A Wordle of the essay’s content:

Bibliography

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Schelling, F.W.J. Brief über den Tod Carolines vom 2. Oktober, 1809 an Immanuel Niethammer, Klein kommentierte Texte I. Ed. Johann Ludwig Döderlein. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Fromman-Holzboog, 1975.

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