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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781761203321

Autore

Grant Iain Hamilton

Titolo

Philosophies of nature after Schelling [[electronic resource] /] / Iain Hamilton Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, 2008

ISBN

1-4411-4730-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Transversals : new directions in philosophy

Disciplina

113.09/034

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Why Schelling? Why Naturephilosophy?; 1.1 Postkantian naturephilosophy; 1.2 The nature of postkantianism; 1.3 The history of philosophy as the comparative extensity of philosophical systems; 2 The Powers Due to Becoming: The Reemergence of Platonic Physics in the Genetic Philosophy; 2.1 Essences and appearances: The dephysicalization of great physics; 2.1.1 The physics of the All and the physics of all things; 2.1.2 Matter, body and substance; 2.1.3 Kosmos noetos

2.2 The becoming of Being: 'Gene' and dynamics in Platonic physics2.3 Natural history; 3 Antiphysics and Neo-Fichteanism; 3.1 Late transcendental physics and philosophy: Kant and somatism; 3.1.1 The genetics of transcendentalism; 3.1.2 Transcendental philosophy as relative antiphysics; 3.1.3 Megabodies and superstrata; 3.2 Metaphysics as antiphysics: Fichteanism and the number of worlds; 3.3 Organics as antiphysics: Fichte contra Oken; 3.3.1 Oken's generative history: Mathematics and the animal; 3.3.2 Naturephilosophy without nature: Fichte's 'essence of animals'

3.4 Antiphysics and the grounds of science4 The Natural History of the Unthinged; 4.1 'The earliest programme of German comparative zoology'; 4.1.1 The natural history of transcendental anatomy; 4.1.2 Physics and the animal kingdom; 4.1.3 Linear and non-linear usages of the theory of recapitulation; 4.2 The factors of parallelism: The dynamic succession of stages in nature; 5 'What thinks in me is what is outside



me': Phenomenality, Physics, and the Idea; 5.1 The subject of nature itself; 5.2 The decomposition of intelligence; 6 Dynamic Philosophy, Transcendental Physics

7 Conclusion: Transcendental GeologyBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

''The whole of modern European philosophy'', wrote F.W.J. Schelling in 1809, ''has this common deficiency - that nature does not exist for it.'' Despite repeated echoes of Schelling''s assessment throughout the natural sciences, and despite the philosophy of nature recently proposed but not completed by Gilles Deleuze, Philosophies of Nature After Schelling argues that Schelling''s verdict remains accurate two hundred years later. Presenting a lucid account of Schelling''s major works in the philosophy of nature alongside those of his scientific contemporaries who pursued and furthered that w