The suspension of reason in Hegel and Schelling
By: Christopher Lauer.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781441176233
Subjects: Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, -- 1775-1854; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831; Reason
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Suspension; title: Hegel and Schelling; title: Outline of the whole; title: The surge of reason : faculty epistemology in Kant and Fichte; title: The first critique's basic distinction; title: The third critique; title: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre; title: Ascendant reason : the early Schelling; title: Of the I; title: The treatises; title: Metastatic reason : Schelling's nature philosophy; title: Organic reason : ideas for a philosophy of nature; title: Rational nature : on the world-soul; title: Inhibition of nature : the Erster entwurf; title: Synthetic reason : the system of transcendental idealism; title: The idea of system; title: The synthetic method; title: History and art; title: Reason as reflection and speculation : Hegel's collaboration with Schelling; title: The differenzschrift; title: Krug's pen; title: The sacred abyss : Schelling's identity philosophy; title: The darstellung; title: System of philosophy in general; title: Space, time, and suspension : Hegel's absolute knowing; title: The phenomenology's critique of Schelling; title: Absolute knowing; title: Suspended reason : Hegel on the certainty and truth of reason; title: Empty idealism; title: Observing nature; title: Observing self-consciousness; title: Self-actualizing reason; title: The project of individuality; title: Reason on the periphery : Schelling's freedom essay; title: Reason as peripheral; title: Pantheism and freedom; title: God as existing; title: Longing for ground; title: The possibility of evil; title: The actuality of evil; title: System, ground, and indifference; title: Reason's systematic excess; title: Hegel's system; title: The myth of totalizing reason; title: The philosophy of nature; title: History; title: Reason's systematic excess; title: Schelling's positive philosophy; title: The natural history of reason; title: The critique of Hegel; title: Now what?