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• Anarchy in the Ground (das Regellose im Grunde)

  Schelling's name in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809) for the irreducible non-rule (das Regellose) that persists in the ground even after the eternal act of self-revelation. The canonical passage (De…

• Barbarian Principle

  Schelling's concept of the irreducible wild essence at the heart of existence — "could be stifled, but never suppressed" (Ages of the World). Appropriated by Merleau-Ponty as être sauvage (wild being) and esprit sauvage (wild mind), the ba…

• Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  German philosopher (1775-1854), founder of Naturphilosophie. In Knight's reading, Schelling is the decisive — and insufficiently acknowledged — influence on Merleau-Ponty's late ontology. Where the standard reception traces Merleau-Ponty's…

• Ground / Existence Distinction (Schelling)

  Schelling's central original distinction, articulated in the "Deduction from the Philosophy of Nature" section of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): "being in so far as it exists" (Existenz) vs. "bei…

• Jakob von Uexküll

  Estonian-German biologist (1864–1944), founder of theoretical biology and biosemiotics, principal scientific source for Merleau-Ponty's 1956–58 Nature courses (Course 1: Animality, Course 2: Animality, the Human Body, Transition to Culture…

• Johann Gottfried Herder

  German philosopher, theologian, literary critic, and pioneering philosopher of history and language (1744–1803). Three roles in Schelling's 1809 Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom: (1) the author of God. Some Co…

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  German poet, novelist, natural-philosopher (1749–1832); cardinal figure of Weimar Klassik; his works span lyric poetry, drama (Faust I/II), the Bildungsroman (Wilhelm Meister), the philosophical novel (Die Wahlverwandtschaften), and natura…

• Leben (Life, Hegel — logical category)

  Das Leben — Life — is the first concrete shape of die Idee in the Doctrine of the Concept (GW 12 pp. 179–198). Crucially: Hegel insists that the logical concept of Life is to be distinguished from Naturleben (the life of nature, treated in…

• Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism Taylor Knight, 2024

  Author(s): Taylor Knight Year: 2024 Type: Book (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series) Foreword: Emmanuel Falque

• Natural Symbolism

  Nature itself operates symbolically, and human symbols are a "second physis" that repeats natural symbolics rather than imposing external meaning. Knight argues that Merleau-Ponty's late philosophy, read through Schelling's Naturphilosophi…

• Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1956–60) Maurice Merleau-Ponty (compiled Dominique Séglard, tr. Robert Vallier), 2003

  Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Compiler/editor (French): Dominique Séglard Translator: Robert Vallier Original French: La Nature: Notes, cours du Collège de France (Éditions du Seuil, 1995) English edition: Northwestern University Press, 20…

• Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith F. W. J. Schelling, 1809

  Author: F. W. J. Schelling · Year: 1809 (Love & Schmidt translation 2006, SUNY Press) · Type: Book (treatise plus appended Supplementary Texts)

• Raymond Ruyer

  French philosopher (1902–1987), specialist in the philosophy of biology and animal behavior. In the wiki's context, Merleau-Ponty's primary source for the animal and embryological material in the 1954–55 Institution course. MP follows Ruye…

• Taylor Knight

  Author of Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series, 2024; foreword by Emmanuel Falque) — the wiki's primary source for the elemental-ontology…

• Ungrund (Schelling / Boehme)

  The non-ground — Schelling's most distinctive move in the closing "All-Unity of Love" of the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). The Ungrund is "the absolute considered merely in itself" prior to the dual…

• What is Merleau-Ponty's relation to Ruyer's finalism?

  A split. Merleau-Ponty in the 1954–55 Institution course follows raymond-ruyer's 1953 Les Temps Modernes article "Les conceptions nouvelles de l'instinct" closely for data — Lorenz on imprinting, Tinbergen on supra-normal stimuli, Gesell o…