The The Perfection of Freedom

Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns

D.C. Schindler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2017
James Clarke & Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-227-17643-6 (ISBN)

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An analysis of the concept of freedom in the thought of three German philosophers, revealing insights that challenge modern conventions.

The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways by the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and possibility, but rather, most fundamentally, with completion, wholeness, and actuality. What is unique here is specifically the interpretation of freedom in terms of form, whether it be aesthetic form (Schiller), organic form (Schelling), or social form (Hegel). Although this book presents serious criticisms of the three philosophers, it shows that they open new avenues for reflection on the notion of freedom; avenues that promise to overcome many of the dichotomies that continue to haunt contemporary thought - for example, between freedom and order, freedom and nature, and self and other. The Perfection of Freedom offers not only a significantly new interpretation of Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, but also proposes a modernity more organically rooted in the ancient and classical Christian worlds.

D.C. Schindler is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. He is the author of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth (2004) and Plato's Critique of Impure Reason (2008).

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: On the German Contribution: Giving Form to Freedom

1. Friedrich Schiller's Dramatic Philosophy: Freedom in Form
I. On the Significance of Style
II. Biographical Background
III. Nature Speaks to Nature
IV. Writing as a Free Gift
V. Meaning in Motion
VI. Elements of the Dramatic
VII. Freestyle
VIII. Poet or Philosopher?

2. An Aesthetics of Freedom: Schiller and the Living Gestalt
I. Introduction: Schiller's Breakthrough
II. The Analogy of Form
III. Form Overcoming Form
IV. Manifest Freedom in Nature
V. Heautonomy and Heteronomy
VI. Freedom and Human Nature
VII. Living Gestalt and Human Wholeness
VIII. The Seriousness of Play
IX. A Criticism and the Question of Contradiction
X. Nobility or Bourgeois Aestheticism?

3. The Dark Roots of Life: Organic Form as a Symbol of Freedom in Schelling's Naturphilosophie
I. The Philosophy of the Future
II. The Origins of Schelling's Naturphilosophie
III. The Impoverishment of Nature
IV. The Impoverishment of Spirit
V. Naturphilosophie and the Place of the Organism
VI. Natural Freedom
VII. Freedom or Form?

4. From Organism to Incarnation: The Fall and Redemption of Finite Form in Schelling's Late Philosophy
I. Ontological Freedom
II. The Fate of the Real in the Early Systems
III. The Positivity of Finite Freedom
IV. The Actuality of Evil and Love in History
V. Creation as Theogony
VI. Love, Nature, and Freedom: A Final Assessment

5. Freedom as the Concrete Form of Reason in Hegel's Philosophy of Right
I. Introduction: Hegel's Uniqueness
II. Preliminary Considerations
III. Rational Politics
IV. Political Reason
V. On the Meaning of Actuality
VI. Philosophical Sources
VII. The Importance of Being Finite
VIII. The Will as Concrete Freedom
IX. Conclusion

6. "The 'I' That Is 'We' and the 'We' That Is 'I'": On the Sociality of Freedom in Hegel and Its Excesses
I. The Controversy Surrounding Hegel's Conception of the State
II. Communal Spirit
III. Sittlichkeit as Social Form
IV. Freedom and Absolute Spirit

7. A Dramatic Conclusion: Opening Up Actual Possibility

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	638 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-227-17643-X / 022717643X
ISBN-13	978-0-227-17643-6 / 9780227176436
Zustand	Neuware