The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801

Nature and Identity

Benjamin Berger, Daniel Whistler (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3440-9 (ISBN)

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Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A. C. A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.

During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. K. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Now, Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling’s thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism.

Benjamin Berger is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University. He is editor of a special issue of Pli, on Schelling: Powers of the Idea, 2014. Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is author and editor of numerous volumes on eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophy, including the three-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis, The Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801: Nature and Identity (EUP, 2020), The Edinburgh Critical History of Nineteenth-Century Christian Theology, The Schelling Reader (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Preface; Abbreviations

Translators’ Note

Introduction: Schelling and Eschenmayer in 1801

Part I: Texts

A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Spontaneity = World Soul, or the Highest Principle of Philosophy of Nature

F.W.J. Schelling, On the True Concept of Philosophy of Nature and the Correct Way of Solving its Problems

Part II: Commentaries

1. Quality

2. Potency

3. Identity

4. Drive

5. Abstraction

Part III: Appendices

1. A. K. A. Eschenmayer and F.W.J. Schelling, Correspondence, 1799-1801

2. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Principles of Nature-Metaphysics Applied to Chemical and Medical Subjects [Extracts]

3. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Deduction of the Living Organism [Extracts]

4. A. K. A. Eschenmayer, Review of Schelling’s First Outline and Introduction to the Outline

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Perspectives in Ontology
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4744-3440-1 / 1474434401
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3440-9 / 9781474434409
Zustand	Neuware