Acknowledgments
Sigla

Part I. Orientations

1. The Reawakening of the Barbarian Principle
Jason M. Wirth

2. Prefatory Meditations
Patrick Burke

Part II. Schelling and Nature

3. Unfolding the Hidden Logos (Or: Much Ado about Nothing)
Joseph P. Lawrence

4. Schelling on Plato’s Timaeus
Kyriaki Goudeli

5. On the Relation Between Nature and History in Schelling’s Freedom Essay and Spinoza’s Thelogico-Political Treatise
Jeffrey A. Bernstein

6. Eternal Times: Schelling on Creation, Contemporaneity, and the Unconscious
Vasiliki Tsakiri

Part III. Merleau-Ponty and Schelling in Conversation

Section 1: Overviews

7. Être sauvage and the Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling
Robert Vallier

8. Être brut or Nature: Merleau-Ponty Surveys Schelling
Josep Maria Bech

Section 2: Particular Themes

9. Freedom as the Experience of Nature: Schelling and Merleau-Ponty on the Open Space in Nature
Annette Hilt

10. Finding the Body’s Place in Nature: Merleau-Ponty on Schelling’s ‘Phenomenology of Pre-Reflective Being’
Angelica Nuzzo

11. Nature and Self-Knowledge: On Schelling’s Ambiguous Role in Merleau-Ponty’s The Concept of Nature
Carolyn Culbertson

12. Reading the Barbarous Source: Merleau-Ponty’s Structural History and Schelling
Stephen H. Watson

13. Nature’s Inside
Bernard Flynn

Section 3: Art and Nature

14. Listening for the Voice of the Light: Mythical Time through the Musical Idea
Jessica Wiskus

15. The Eye and the Spirit of Nature: Some Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling Concerning the Relationship between Art and Nature
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

16. The Art of Nature: On the Agony of the Will in Schelling and Merleau-Ponty
Jason M. Wirth

Contributors
Index

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is the author of Schelling’s Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination and The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time; the translator of The Ages of the World by F. W. J. Schelling; and the coeditor (with Patrick Burke) of The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature, all published by SUNY Press.