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German Idealism
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Organisms and Natural Ends in Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
The aim of this chapter is to provide an interpretation of the epistemic role of the concept of natural end as Kant introduces it in the Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment. I argue that this concept h...
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Romantic Empiricism in the Anthropocene: Unlocking A. v. Humboldt’s and F. W. J. Schelling’s Potential for the Environmental Humanities
With the proclamation of a new geochronological age called the ‘Anthropocene’, it is now made abundantly clear that humankind has become the most powerful influence on planet Earth. The interdependency of natu...
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The Difference Between Hegel and Schelling on Freedom and Negation
This paper addresses the relationship between freedom and negativity in the early works of G.W.F. Hegel and F.W.J. Schelling. Its guiding concern is to locate the role of negativity (and positivity) in giving ...
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Nothing [Christoph Asmuth; Translator: Niels Feuerhahn]
In contrast to being, there seems to be nothing to say about nothingness. The impression, however, is deceptive. A shrewd sophist, who greatly annoyed Plato, has left us a dazzling piece of ancient rhetoric th...
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The Stylistics of Sculpture
Hegel considers sculpture to be so fundamentally suited to the Classical style that he dismisses any Symbolic or Romantic sculptural efforts as devoid of aesthetically noteworthy achievement. Nonetheless, Hege...
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The Aesthetics of Literary Genres
Lyric, Epic, and Drama have perennially been acknowledged to be the fundamental genres of literature, but their defining identity and status has been embroiled in controversy. Although the division of literary...
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Concerning the Necessary Limits in the Use of Beautiful Forms (1795)
In his essay On the necessary limits in the use of beautiful forms Schiller delineates to what degree beautiful packaging of philosophical thoughts is beneficial, as opposed to cases where it merely masks an inco...
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Caput Mortuum: Truth, Freedom, and Negation in Fichte’s Institutiones Omnis Philosophiae
Rejecting the tendency to regard Fichte as merely a transitional figure in the development of German idealism, the following paper argues that, in the years following his dismissal from Jena, Fichte will come ...
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Rethinking Schelling’s Philosophy of Nature Through a Process Account of Emergence
The paper proposes a novel reading of Schelling’s speculative physics in light of debates concerning the notion of emergence in philosophy of science. We begin by highlighting Schelling’s disruptive potential ...
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Scientism as Ideology; Speculative Naturalism as Qualified Decoloniality
My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive p...
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On Positive Philosophy: Hegel’s Retort to Schelling
Concentrating on Schelling’s lectures of 1833–1834 regarding the history of philosophy, together with the Berlin lectures of 1842, I will discuss Schelling’s critique of negative philosophy in light of Hegel’s...
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Negation, Contradiction, and Hegel’s Emancipation of Truth, Right, and Beauty
Thinkers have never been able to deny the centrality of negation and contradiction in everything human, despite all their efforts to banish both from the domains of truth, right, and beauty. Unless we properly...
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Painting and Artistic Style
The possibilities of painting in the Symbolic style obviously build upon the shapes taken by Symbolic sculpture. The way Symbolic sculptors give plastic configuration to their worldview of the divine and human...
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Pure Cinema as Fine Art
Few can deny that today motion pictures have become an art of unrivaled public attention and unrivaled mobilization of creative resources. Whether relying upon chemical or digital photography and video, with d...
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On the Sublime (1801)
Zelle offers a concise analysis of Schiller’s late essay On the Sublime (1801). He discusses the controversial history of its origin, takes into account its publication context and gives an outlook on the history...
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Through Consciousness Parted from Dream: Alternative Knowledge Forms in Karoline von Günderrode
Karoline von Günderrode’s reputation as a mystical writer makes her a likely candidate as a proponent of a negative philosophy. However, the historical emphasis on Günderrode’s mystical and lyrical writings re...
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Psychoanalysis
This chapter tracks the development of the idea of the unconscious as it emerges from the tensions between Hegel’s and Schelling’s speculative philosophies. It then focuses on Schelling’s speculative unconscio...
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Schiller on Politics and Political Theory
This contribution explores the political dimension of Schiller’s theoretical writings as well as his plays. Introducing into the basic theses of Schiller’s political approach in the context of his anthropologi...
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On ‘Individuality’
‘On ‘Individuality,’ is introductory, starting with an outline of my general argument: (1) Hegel engages with a historically important conversation about ‘individuality’ emergent in the late-eighteenth and ear...
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Concepts with Teeth and Claws. On Species, Essences and Purposes in Hegel’s Organic Physics
In this chapter I argue that Hegel is not an ‘essentialist’ when it comes to living nature. Hegel does not have a conception of species that fits essentialism, in the sense that this term has for historians of...
