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The conclusion traces a path through the responses to Schelling in British fin de siècle literature into modernist and twentieth century readings of his philosophy. Beginning with Max Müller and Walter Pater on Schelling’s positive philosophy and the unconscious ground of being, Schelling’s reception in the discourses of late nineteenth century psychology and theosophy is discussed, before a path is traced through William James and Freud to psychoanalysis. The conclusion shows the ways in which some of the most influential recent approaches to Schelling, developed by figures such as Slavoj Žižek and Gilles Deleuze, are in certain ways foreshadowed in the nineteenth century British reading of Schelling.
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Whiteley, G. (2018). Towards a Modern Reading of Schelling. In: Schelling’s Reception in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95906-1_11
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