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Schelling’s Politics of Sympathy: Reflections on Clara and Related Texts

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Abstract

In this essay, I read F. W. J. Schelling’s Clara alongside a number of his other texts from 1804-1815 in terms of the concept of sympathy. In so doing, I illuminate the implicit role of this psychological concept in Schelling’s metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy and political philosophy of that period, and thereby suggest that the most fundamental consequence of its employment is a populist reorientation of philosophy. Philosophy is to be undertaken not just for the people, but by them too: Schelling identifies the activity of philosophising with the public action of a community bonded by sympathetic ties.

Abstract

In this essay, I read F. W. J. Schelling’s Clara alongside a number of his other texts from 1804-1815 in terms of the concept of sympathy. In so doing, I illuminate the implicit role of this psychological concept in Schelling’s metaphysics, epistemology, metaphilosophy and political philosophy of that period, and thereby suggest that the most fundamental consequence of its employment is a populist reorientation of philosophy. Philosophy is to be undertaken not just for the people, but by them too: Schelling identifies the activity of philosophising with the public action of a community bonded by sympathetic ties.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt V
  3. Vorwort IX
  4. Preface XI
  5. Einleitung XIII
  6. Introduction XXI
  7. I. Beiträge/Essays
  8. Philosophy of Psychology in German Idealism 3
  9. Kant’s Moral Psychology in the Fact of Reason 23
  10. Rethinking the Relationship between Empirical Psychology and Transcendental Philosophy in Kant 47
  11. Modern Meanings of Subjectivity: Philosophical, Psychological, Physiological 77
  12. Fichte’s Moral Psychology of Drives and Feelings and its Influence on Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of the Will 105
  13. The Space of Intelligence 125
  14. Hegel on Passion in History 143
  15. Hegel and Goethe on the Symbolism of Color 167
  16. Hegels Psychologie der Religion 191
  17. ‚Der Geist ist nicht das Höchste‘ Schellings Psychologie in den Stuttgarter Privatvorlesungen von 1810 217
  18. Schelling’s Politics of Sympathy: Reflections on Clara and Related Texts 245
  19. Friedrich Schlegel and Romantic Psychology: The Fragmentary Self as Ironic System 269
  20. II. Rezensionen/Reviews
  21. Rachel Zuckert und James Kreines (Hrsg.): Hegel on Philosophy in History 295
  22. Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers (eds.): Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics 301
  23. Fred Rush: Irony and Idealism. Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard 307
  24. David James and Günter Zöller (eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Fichte 315
  25. Béatrice Longuenesse: I, Me, Mine. Back to Kant, and Back Again 321
  26. III. Anhang/Appendix
  27. Autoren/Authors 327
  28. Hinweis an die Verlage/Letter to Publishers 331
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673692-015

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt V
  3. Vorwort IX
  4. Preface XI
  5. Einleitung XIII
  6. Introduction XXI
  7. I. Beiträge/Essays
  8. Philosophy of Psychology in German Idealism 3
  9. Kant’s Moral Psychology in the Fact of Reason 23
  10. Rethinking the Relationship between Empirical Psychology and Transcendental Philosophy in Kant 47
  11. Modern Meanings of Subjectivity: Philosophical, Psychological, Physiological 77
  12. Fichte’s Moral Psychology of Drives and Feelings and its Influence on Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of the Will 105
  13. The Space of Intelligence 125
  14. Hegel on Passion in History 143
  15. Hegel and Goethe on the Symbolism of Color 167
  16. Hegels Psychologie der Religion 191
  17. ‚Der Geist ist nicht das Höchste‘ Schellings Psychologie in den Stuttgarter Privatvorlesungen von 1810 217
  18. Schelling’s Politics of Sympathy: Reflections on Clara and Related Texts 245
  19. Friedrich Schlegel and Romantic Psychology: The Fragmentary Self as Ironic System 269
  20. II. Rezensionen/Reviews
  21. Rachel Zuckert und James Kreines (Hrsg.): Hegel on Philosophy in History 295
  22. Courtney D. Fugate and John Hymers (eds.): Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics 301
  23. Fred Rush: Irony and Idealism. Rereading Schlegel, Hegel, and Kierkegaard 307
  24. David James and Günter Zöller (eds.): The Cambridge Companion to Fichte 315
  25. Béatrice Longuenesse: I, Me, Mine. Back to Kant, and Back Again 321
  26. III. Anhang/Appendix
  27. Autoren/Authors 327
  28. Hinweis an die Verlage/Letter to Publishers 331
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