Schelling Now

Introduction: Schelling Now Jason M. Wirth Part 1. New Approaches 1. Philosophical Religion and the Quest for Authenticity Joseph P. Lawrence; 2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Schelling (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) Slavoj eiuek; 3. Moving Images of Eternity: Powers in Difference Stephen David Ross; 4. The Work of Experience: Schelling on a Thinking beyond Image and Concept Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback; 5. Animalization: Schelling and the Problem of Expressivity Jason M. Wirth Part 2. Rethinking Contexts 6. God's Footstool: A Note on the Source for Schelling's Description of the Olympian Zeus in the 1811 Draft of The Ages of the World David Farrell Krell; 7. The Electromagnetic Orgasm and the Narrative of Primordiality in Schelling's 1815 Cosmic History Martin Wallen; 8. A Monstrous Absolute: Schelling, Kant, and the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Theodore D. George; 9. A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's The Ages of the World F. Scott Scribner Part 3. Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy 10. Reading Schelling after Heidegger: The Freedom of Cryptic Dialogue Peter Warnek; 11. Creativity and the Unconscious In Merleau-Ponty and Schelling Patrick Burke; 12: Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to Schelling Fiona Steinkamp; 13. Giving Way to ... Freedom: A Note after Nancy and Schelling Benjamin S. Pryor; 14. The Problem of Evil and Difference: A Report on Nishitani's Relationship to Schelling Eiko Hanaoka

Jason M. Wirth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy, Communications, and Fine Arts Division at Oglethorpe University. He is author of Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time and translator of Schelling s Ages of the World."

For too long Schelling's philosophy has been seen as no more than a transition from the philosophies of Kant and Fichte to that of Hegel. In recent years, however, Schelling's philosophy has begun to be recognized as worthy of study in its own right. Complementing The New Schelling (2004), ed. by Judith Norman and Alistair Welchman, this volume of 14 essays, edited by Wirth (Oglethorpe Univ.), constitutes a crucial further step in establishing the importance and contemporary relevance of Schelling's philosophy. Schelling Now is divided into three sections: New Approaches, Rethinking Concepts, and Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy. Although this last section demonstrates the relevance of Schelling's philosophy to that of Heidegger, Merleau--Ponty, Levinas, Nancy, and Nishitani, none of the essays effectively argues that Schelling has insights not achieved by those other thinkers or that his philosophy can be seen as having advanced, avant la lettre, beyond theirs. Moreover, Schelling's philosophy has not yet been brought into the conversation of analytic philosophy. Not until these occur will it be fully rehabilitated. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers.J. M. Fritzman, Lewis and Clark College, 2005sep CHOICE--J. M. Fritzman, Lewis and Clark College, 2005sep CHOICE