Philosophies of nature after Schelling / Iain Hamilton Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grant, Iain Hamilton.

Series:

Transversals.

Transversals : new directions in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of nature--History.

Philosophy of nature.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2008.

Summary:

''The whole of modern European philosophy'', wrote F.W.J. Schelling in 1809, ''has this common deficiency - that nature does not exist for it.'' Despite repeated echoes of Schelling''s assessment throughout the natural sciences, and despite the philosophy of nature recently proposed but not completed by Gilles Deleuze, Philosophies of Nature After Schelling argues that Schelling''s verdict remains accurate two hundred years later. Presenting a lucid account of Schelling''s major works in the philosophy of nature alongside those of his scientific contemporaries who pursued and furthered that w

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Why Schelling? Why Naturephilosophy?; 1.1 Postkantian naturephilosophy; 1.2 The nature of postkantianism; 1.3 The history of philosophy as the comparative extensity of philosophical systems; 2 The Powers Due to Becoming: The Reemergence of Platonic Physics in the Genetic Philosophy; 2.1 Essences and appearances: The dephysicalization of great physics; 2.1.1 The physics of the All and the physics of all things; 2.1.2 Matter, body and substance; 2.1.3 Kosmos noetos

2.2 The becoming of Being: 'Gene' and dynamics in Platonic physics2.3 Natural history; 3 Antiphysics and Neo-Fichteanism; 3.1 Late transcendental physics and philosophy: Kant and somatism; 3.1.1 The genetics of transcendentalism; 3.1.2 Transcendental philosophy as relative antiphysics; 3.1.3 Megabodies and superstrata; 3.2 Metaphysics as antiphysics: Fichteanism and the number of worlds; 3.3 Organics as antiphysics: Fichte contra Oken; 3.3.1 Oken's generative history: Mathematics and the animal; 3.3.2 Naturephilosophy without nature: Fichte's 'essence of animals'

3.4 Antiphysics and the grounds of science4 The Natural History of the Unthinged; 4.1 'The earliest programme of German comparative zoology'; 4.1.1 The natural history of transcendental anatomy; 4.1.2 Physics and the animal kingdom; 4.1.3 Linear and non-linear usages of the theory of recapitulation; 4.2 The factors of parallelism: The dynamic succession of stages in nature; 5 'What thinks in me is what is outside me': Phenomenality, Physics, and the Idea; 5.1 The subject of nature itself; 5.2 The decomposition of intelligence; 6 Dynamic Philosophy, Transcendental Physics

7 Conclusion: Transcendental GeologyBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441147301

1441147306

OCLC:

893334223