Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Contents 10 Preface 12 Wild Nature and Its Practice 13 Plan of the Book 15 Part I. Time 20 Chapter 1. Extinction 22 One Great Ruin 22 Sifting Through Ruins 26 Time and Nature 31 Nature Is Bizarre 40 The Image of the Unimaginable 42 Chapter 2. Solitude of God 50 Philosophical Revelation 50 The Future of God 64 Philosophical Religion 68 Part II. Thinking with Deleuze 72 Chapter 3. Image of Thought 74 It Is Hard To See Where It Is 75 And the Echo of a Voice, Now Changed, Utterly Dissociated 80 Almost Identical to the Space That Was. But It Is Not 84 It Is Another Place 86 You Are Not What You Were But as Though Emerging from Air, You Slowly Show Yourself as Someone, Not Ever Remembered 98 Chapter 4. Stupidity 112 The Transcendental Question of Stupidity, or the Dogmatic Image of Thought 112 The Drive for Conclusions 126 The Drunken Sobriety of Philosophical Religion versus the Great Ocean of Stupidity 131 Part III. Nature of Art and Art of Nature 142 Chapter 5. Plasticity 144 Chapter 6. Life of Imagination 160 Where on Earth 160 Both Senses of Sense 162 The War of Monoculture Against Monoculture 167 Art of Imagination 169 The Allegorical Reign of the Time of Revelation 181 The New Mythology of the Whale 184 Appendix A. Schelling鈥檚 Answer to Eschenmayer [The Letter to Eschenmayer] (1812) 192 Appendix B. Schelling鈥檚 Unfinished Dialogue: Reason and Personality in the Letter to Eschenmayer 216 Existence and Ground 217 Reason, Understanding, and the Thing 219 Physics, Metaphor, and Anthropomorphism 224 Notes 228 Bibliography 268 Schelling 268 Individual Editions Consulted 269 Other Materials Consulted 273 Index 292 The last two decades have seen a renaissance and reappraisal of Schelling's remarkable body of philosophical work, moving beyond explications and historical study to begin thinking with and through Schelling, exploring and developing the fundamental issues at stake in his thought and their contemporary relevance. In this book, Jason M. Wirth seeks to engage Schelling's work concerning the philosophical problem of the relationship of time and the imagination, calling this relationship Schelling's practice of the wild. Focusing on the questions of nature, art, philosophical religion (mythology and revelation), and history, Wirth argues that at the heart of Schelling's work is a radical philosophical and religious ecology. He develops this theme not only through close readings of Schelling's texts, but also by bringing them into dialogue with thinkers as diverse as Deleuze, Nietzsche, Melville, Musil, and many others. The book also features the first appearance in English translation of Schelling's famous letter to Eschenmayer regarding the Freedom essay. -- Publisher