The suspension of reason in Hegel and Schelling Christopher Lauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lauer, Christopher, author.

Series:

Continuum studies in philosophy.

Continuum studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this rigorous historical analysis, Lauer challenges traditional readings that have reduced two of German idealism's most important thinkers to opposing caricatures: Hegel the uncompromising systematist blind to the novelty and contingency of human life and Schelling the protean thinker drawn to all manner of pseudoscientific charlatanry. Bringing together recent scholarship that is just beginning to realise Schelling's centrality in the overthrow of metaphysics and Hegel's openness to diversity and innovation, this book shows that both thinkers can be read as contributing to the Kantian project of showing both the utter necessity and the limitations of reason. In readings of texts spanning each thinker's career, Lauer shows that animating much of Hegel and Schellings' most passionate work is their recognition of the need neither for a canonization of reason nor for its overthrow, but for its 'suspension'. Their lifelong willingness to revisit both their definitions of reason and their accounts of its role in philosophy give these discussions a vitality and depth that few in the history of philosophy can match

Contents:

Introduction. Suspension

Hegel and Schelling?

Outline of the whole

The surge of reason : faculty epistemology in Kant and Fichte. The first Critique's basic distinction

The third Critique

Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre

Ascendant reason : the early Schelling. Of the I

The 'treatises'

Metastatic reason : Schelling's nature philosophy. Organic reason : Ideas for a philosophy of nature

Rational nature : On the world-soul

The inhibition of nature : the Erster entwurf

Synthetic reason : the System of transcendental idealism. The idea of system

The synthetic method

History and art

Reason as reflection and speculation : Hegel's collaboration with Schelling. The differenzschrift

Krug's pen

'The sacred abyss' : Schelling's identity philosophy. The Darstellung

System of philosophy in general

Space, time, and suspension : Hegel's 'absolute knowing.' The Phenomenology's critique of Schelling

'Absolute knowing'

Suspended reason : Hegel on 'the certainty and truth of reason.' Empty idealism

Observing nature

Observing self-consciousness

Self-actualizing reason

The project of individuality

Reason on the periphery : Schelling's Freedom essay. Reason as peripheral

Pantheism and freedom

God as existing

Longing for ground

The possibility of evil

The actuality of evil

System, ground, and indifference

Reason's systematic excess I : Hegel's system. The myth of totalizing reason

The philosophy of nature

History

Reason's systematic excess II : the transition to Schelling's positive philosophy. The natural history of reason

The critique of Hegel

Now what?

Introduction

1. The Surge of Reason: Faculty Epistemology in Kant and Fichte

2. Ascendent Reason: The Early Schelling

3. Metastatic Reason: Schelling's Nature Philosophy

4. Synthetic Reason: The System of Transcendental Idealism

5. Reason as Reflection and Speculation: Hegel's Collaboration with Schelling

6. 'The Sacred Abyss': Schelling's Identity Philosophy

7. Space, Time, and Suspension: Hegel's 'Absolute Knowing'

8. Suspended Reason: Hegel on 'The Certainty and Truth of Reason'

9. Reason on the Periphery: Schelling's Freedom Essay

10. Reason's Systematic Excess I: Hegel's System

11. Reason's Systematic Excess II: Schelling's Positive Philosophy

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786612525995

9781472547712

1472547713

9781282525993

1282525999

9781441123886

1441123881

OCLC:

609858453