Schelling Now

Although previously considered a way-station on the road to Hegel, F. W. J. von Schelling is today enjoying a renaissance among Continental philosophers and others. The 14 essays in this engaging volume bring Schelling in tune with such luminaries as Heidegger, Derrida, Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, Levinas, and Irigaray and situate him squarely in the center of current themes and discussions in such topics as ethical alterity (the other), deep ecology and the question of nature, the relation of aesthetics to nature, the crisis of truth, the possibility of non-dialectical philosophy, and the possibility of a philosophical religion. Established scholars and newer voices cast light on Schelling and German Idealism.
Contributors are Patrick Burke, Theodore D. George, Eiko Hanaoka, David Farrell Krell, Joseph P. Lawrence, Benjamin S. Pryor, Stephen David Ross, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, F. Scott Scribner, Fiona Steinkamp, Martin Wallen, Peter Warnek, Jason M. Wirth, and Slavoj Zizek.

Introduction: Schelling NowJason M. Wirth
Part 1. New Approaches
1. Philosophical Religion and the Quest for AuthenticityJoseph P. Lawrence
2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Schelling (but Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) Slavoj Žižek
3. Moving Images of Eternity: Powers in DifferenceStephen David Ross
4. The Work of Experience: Schelling on a Thinking beyond Image and ConceptMarcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
5. Animalization: Schelling and the Problem of ExpressivityJason 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 WorldDavid Farrell Krell
7. The Electromagnetic Orgasm and the Narrative of Primordiality in Schelling's 1815 Cosmic HistoryMartin Wallen
8. A Monstrous Absolute: Schelling, Kant, and the Poetic Turn in PhilosophyTheodore D. George
9. A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's Ages of the WorldF. Scott Scribner
Part 3. Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy
10. Reading Schelling after Heidegger: The Freedom of Cryptic DialoguePeter Warnek
11. Creativity and the Unconscious in Merleau-Ponty and SchellingPatrick Burke
12: Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to SchellingFiona Steinkamp
13. "Giving Way to . . . Freedom": A Note after Nancy and SchellingBenjamin S. Pryor
14. The Problem of Evil and Difference: A Report on Nishitani's Relationship to SchellingEiko Hanaoka
Further Reading
Contributors
Index