Bliss against the world : Schelling, theodicy, and the crisis of modernity / Kirill Chepurin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chepurin, Kirill, author.

Series:

AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion.

Oxford scholarship online.

AAR reflection and theory in the study of religion

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 1775-1854.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von.

God (Christianity).

Theodicy.

Alienation (Philosophy).

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Bliss Against the World' reinterprets Schelling's philosophical trajectory from the 1790s to the 1840s, showing his metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and natural philosophy to be underwritten by the apocalyptic tension between bliss and theodicy. It argues that this tension is located likewise at the heart of modernity and reconstructs the Schellingian genealogy of the modern age as intensifying what may be termed the general Christian contradiction. It also focuses on Schelling's anxiety about the possibility of universal history in the dark and de-centered universe and critiques his Romantic construction of humanity and his geo-racial theodicy of history - a theodicy that refracts and legitimates the violent logics of post-1492 modernity, including European colonialism, racialization, and transatlantic slavery.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

General Introduction: Modernity, Theodicy, Bliss

I.1. Schelling's Plenum of Bliss

I.2. The Genealogical Question

I.3. A Scene of Bliss: Rousseau and Adorno

I.4. The Fall from Bliss (into the World): Kant

I.5. Modernity and Theodicy

Part I Why Must This World Be?

Epigraph

1 The General Christian Contradiction

1.1. Separation and Delegitimation

1.2. Faith and the Not-Yet of the World

1.3. The Epoch of Crisis: Modernity and Alienation

1.4. With and Against the Christian-Modern

1.5. Mysticism, Magic, and the Signs of the Times (with an Excursus on Wordsworth)

Interlude I: Ordo quis datus?

I1.1. The World-Historical Constellation

2 The Demiurgic Subject

2.1. To Break All Finite Spheres: In Search of Lost Bliss

2.2. To Reproduce the World: Idealism as the Katechon

Interlude II: "Abyss of Repose and Inactivity"

3 Evil Is but a Shadow

3.1. The One Common Being: Re-visioning the Universe as Bliss

3.2. To Dissolve as in Water, to Consume as in Fire

3.3. Everything in Its Place and Time: An Aesthetic Cosmic Theodicy

Part II The Dark Ground

Introduction to Part II: On Schelling's Post-1809 System Narrative

4 Universal Ekstasis

or, Fallenness and Method

4.1. Decentering: The Fall of Adam and the Inverted World (of Modernity)

4.2. Kenosis and Construction: The Method of Philosophy

5 Universal Spiral

5.1. God's Own Shelter from the World: Cosmic War and Cosmic Peace

5.2. Bliss before the Law

5.3. Recentering the Human in a Cosmic Revolution

5.4. Conclusion: Human Self-Assertion Restaged at the Meta-level

Interlude III: Clock Time as Fallen Time

6 The Race to Bliss: Assembling Global Humanity.

6.1. Negative and Positive Philosophy

or, Modernity and Christianity Redux

6.2. Without God, Without Possibility: Racialization and Conversion

Conclusion: Bliss Against Theodicy

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 27, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197788929

0197788920

9780197788912

0197788912

9780197788905

0197788904

OCLC:

1454856229