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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…
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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…
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Daß/Was Distinction
Schelling's 1850 Quelle lecture distinguishes two "aspects" of what Kant had called the Ideal of Pure Reason: (A) the Ideal qua Reason — the "completely determinate concept [Inbegriff] of all possibilities," the Was ("whatness," totality o…
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Evil as Positive Reversal (Schelling)
Schelling's distinctive theory of evil from the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809): evil is not privation (Augustine, Leibniz) and not mere sensuality ("Monotheletism") but the positive reversal of the in…
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Fire / Ignition / Spark
A HUB motif of flesh-as-element's Presocratic register, tracking the genealogy Heraclitus → Schelling → Merleau-Ponty through which "fire" comes to name the transition (the spark between sensing and sensible, the ignition that converts lat…
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Franz Xaver von Baader
Bavarian Catholic philosopher and theologian (1765–1841), the Munich collaborator and credited precursor of Schelling in the Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809). Schelling explicitly credits Baader with th…
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German Aufklärung dramatist, critic, and philosopher (1729–1781), three roles in Schelling's Philosophical Investigations (1809): (1) the staged Spinozist in Jacobi's 1785 On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn — Le…
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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…
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In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1970 (English combined edition; Part 1 original 1953, Part 2 original 1968) Type: Book (combined volume: inaugural lecture + course summaries)
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Jakob Böhme
German theosophist (1575–1624), shoemaker by trade, born in Alt Seidenberg (Görlitz, Saxony). Author of the Aurora (1612), De signatura rerum, Mysterium Magnum, Sex puncta theosophica, and the Mysterium Pansophicum (1620), among other theo…
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German idealist philosopher (1762–1814), author of the Wissenschaftslehre (1794 and multiple revisions), the Grundlage des Naturrechts (1796), the Reden an die deutsche Nation (1808). On the wiki, Fichte enters as a foil in Hegel's WdL: (i…
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Light of the Flesh
Merleau-Ponty's late doctrine of a "new idea of light": light inseparable from shadow, structurally diffused in the flesh rather than emanating from an intelligible sun. Developed in the preparatory notes for the 1960–61 course "Philosophy…
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Merleau-Ponty and the Essence of Nature: A Return to Elemental Symbolism
Author(s): Taylor Knight Year: 2024 Type: Book (Edinburgh University Press, New Perspectives in Ontology series) Foreword: Emmanuel Falque
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Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in the light of Kant's Third Critique and Schelling's Real-Idealismus
Author(s): Sebastian Gardner (University College London) Year: 2016 Type: Paper (Continental Philosophy Review, DOI 10.1007/s11007-016-9393-1)
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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…
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Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France (1956–60)
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…
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Paul Ricoeur
French philosopher (1913–2005) of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In the wiki's corpus Ricoeur figures principally as: (a) the philosopher whose 1973 dictum "the philosophical basis of the major book of 1945 [Phenomenology of Perception] h…
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Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Matters Connected Therewith
Author: F. W. J. Schelling · Year: 1809 (Love & Schmidt translation 2006, SUNY Press) · Type: Book (treatise plus appended Supplementary Texts)
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Positive Philosophy
Schelling's late project (formally announced in the Berlin lectures of the 1840s, culminating in the 1850 Quelle) of going beyond what he calls Vernunftwissenschaft — merely rational science — by recognizing that thought is indebted to bei…
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Slavoj Žižek
Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist (b. 1949), the most prominent contemporary exponent of a Lacanian-Hegelian reading of German Idealism. For this wiki Žižek matters in two roles: (1) as the author of The Indivisible Remainder: An…
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The Eclipse of Coincidence: Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, and Žižek's Misreading of Schelling
Author: Peter Dews · Year: 1999 (Angelaki 4:3: 15–24; republished as a book chapter) · Type: article
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Theodicy
The philosophical project of justifying God's permission of evil in creation — coined by Leibniz in his 1710 Essais de théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal. The Love & Schmidt editors' Introduction to t…
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Thought's Indebtedness to Being
Author(s): Sebastian Gardner (University College London) Year: 2020 (in G. Anthony Bruno, ed., Schelling's Philosophy: Freedom, Nature, and Systematicity, OUP; DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198812814.003.0012). Dated "2018" in the wiki slug because…
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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…
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Unvordenklich / Unvordenklichkeit
Schelling's late term for being that "pre-dates thought, possibility, and the PSR" — being which cannot be thought away because thought itself arrives in possibility, and possibility presupposes this being. In Gardner's reconstruction, unv…