Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century,...
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Author: Naomi Fisher
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Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802 by Fisher, Naomi

Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802

$322.78

Schelling's Mystical Platonism: 1792-1802

$322.78
Author: Naomi Fisher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. At this time, in addition to delving into the new Kantian philosophy, Schelling engaged in an intense study of Plato's dialogues and was immersed in a Neoplatonic intellectual culture. Attention to these aspects of Schelling's early philosophical development illuminates his fundamental commitments. Throughout the first decade of his adult life, from 1792-1802, Schelling was a mystical Platonist.
Naomi Fisher argues that Schelling is committed to two overarching theses, which together comprise his mystical Platonism. First, Schelling considers the absolute to be ineffable: It cannot be described in conceptual terms. For this reason, it remains inferentially external to any given philosophical system and is only intimated to us in certain analogical formulations, in works of art, or in nature as a whole. Second, Schelling is committed to a kind of priority monism: All things are grounded in the absolute, but finite things possess an integral unity all their own, and so have a distinct and relatively independent existence.
Highlighting these commitments resolves an interpretive dispute, according to which Schelling is a Fichtean idealist or a Spinozist, or he vacillates between these positions. Interpreting Schelling as advancing a mystical Platonism provides an alternative way of interpreting these early texts, such that they are by and large consistent. Fisher presents Schelling's early philosophy as a unique and compelling fusion of the old and new: Schelling fulfills the characteristic aims of post-Kantian philosophy in a way distinctive among his contemporaries, by drawing on and appropriating various strands of Platonism.

Author: Naomi Fisher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780197752883

About the Author
Naomi Fisher is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. She is a scholar of Kant and post-Kantian German philosophy, and she also holds an M.S. in physics. Her work focuses on notions of nature, freedom, and grounding in Kant and post-Kantian philosophy.

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