Jason M. Wirth & Patrick Burke 
The Barbarian Principle [EPUB ebook] 
Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature

Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schelling’s philosophy of nature.
The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism.

Tabella dei contenuti

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

Circa l’autore

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and the author of
The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time, also published by SUNY Press.
Patrick Burke is Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University and is Dean of Gonzaga-in-Florence.