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Article: First outline of a system of theory: Schelling and the margins of philosophy, 1799-1815.(Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- January 1, 2007
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1. Knowledge, Fluidity, Theory
NATURE, SCHELLING WRITES IN AGES OF THE WORLD (1815), "IS AN ABYSS of the past" (31). (1) Or as Hegel says, in work begun at Jena when he was still close to Schelling, nature is "an alien existence in which Spirit does not find itself," "the Idea in the form of otherness," as "the negative of itself" (3, 13). (2) Schelling's phrase enigmatically conjoins discourses that are foreign to each other: nature, history, and ontology. What results is not natural science, or Natur-philosophie, a science fiction in which nature and spirit find themselves rather than being estranged in each other. One could call it "physiogony," a term used by ...