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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...
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The Emergence of the Unprethinkable: On Schelling’s Methodology in 1821 and His Early Critique of Hegel
Long before the famous notion of “unprethinkable being” is vastly used in Schelling’s later works, it is forged within his Weltalter project during...
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Infinite Judgments: The Non-Being of the Idea [Anna Longo; Translator: Martijn Buijs]
Infinite judgments have been known since antiquity, yet they have been forgotten since the establishment of modern logic. Infinite judgements are...
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Concrete Negation: The Dialectic of Culture’s Self-Destruction in Cassirer and Adorno
This paper concerns the problem of “negation” in the context of a philosophy of culture. The leading question is whether the concrete negation of...
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Negative Sublimity: Hegel’s Description of Jewish Religion
Hegel discusses Jewish religion and its monotheistic concept of the divine in two contexts of his philosophy. On the one hand, he unfolds a theory of...
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Positivity and Time in Schelling’s Philosophical Development
Though Schelling makes the distinction between positive and negative philosophy in the later period, and starts to develop his positive philosophy...
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Prefacing the Absolute: Two Models of Situating Self-Negating Negativity in Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik from 1812 and 1832
In the opening of his logic, Hegel famously claims to have established the absolute beginning of philosophy with pure being, which subsequently...
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Herder and Daoism on Touching the Spirit of Sculpture
This chapter examines the sculptural aesthetics of Johann Herder and Chinese Daoism. Herder’s thesis that sculpture presents “forms in which the...
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Kant’s Space and Time as Nothing: Empirical Reality as the Ground of Experience
In the Table of Nothing, Kant includes a discussion of space and time, under the heading of relation. There, he says that space or time is an ens...
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Introduction: The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy: The Problem of Negation
In this introduction to the Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, I elucidate the problem of negation in classical Greek philosophy, Kant,...
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The Emptiness of Being: Schelling and Nishitani on the Problem of Absolute Negation
Schelling and Nishitani both confront the problem of absolute negation in post-Kantian philosophy and drive it beyond its eventual development into...
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Hegel’s Logic of Negation
In his introduction to the General Concept of the Logic, Hegel writes: “What propels the concept onward is the already mentioned negative which it...
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Imagination and Transcendental Objects: Kant on the Imaginary Focus of Reason
Going back to Jacobi, commentators have often considered Kant’s notion of the transcendental object (thing in itself, monad, or object = X) to be...
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‘Individuality’ in Hegel’s Aesthetics (I)
This chapter turns finally to Hegel’s Aesthetics, lectures given in Heidelberg and Berlin (the latter comprising four series, from 1820/21, 1823,...
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‘Individuality’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit (II)
This chapter turns to Chapters VI (‘Spirit’) and VII (‘Religion’) in the Phenomenology. I focus on Hegel’s celebrated interpretation of ‘ethical...
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Individuality’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit (I)
This chapter addresses ‘individuality’ as it functions in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. The category is central to the ‘Inverted World’ (laws...
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‘Individuality’ in Hegel’s Early Thought
This chapter considers how Hegel’s early thought gradually absorbed ‘individuality,’ with respect to religion, metaphysics and ethics. Beginning with...
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Schiller and Early German Romantics (Kleist, Hölderlin, Goethe)
Schiller’s importance for the Romantic generation is discussed in relation to three writers and thinkers whose work arose in close connection—and by...
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On the Art of Tragedy (1792)
In contrast to the essay On the Cause of the Pleasure we derive from Tragic Objects, which was still focused on the notion of effect poetics, the...
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Schiller’s Horen, Humboldt’s Rhodian Genius, and the Development of Physiological Ideas in Mythical Form
Millán Brusslan focuses upon “Life Force or the Rhodian Genius: A Tale,” an essay Humboldt wrote for Schiller’s journal, Die Horen, to demonstrate...