Jason M. Wirth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy, Communications, and Fine Arts Division at Oglethorpe University. He is author of Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time and translator of Schelling's Ages of the World.

Introduction: Schelling NowJason M. Wirth

Part 1. New Approaches

1. Philosophical Religion and the Quest for AuthenticityJoseph P. Lawrence

2. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Schelling (but Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock) Slavoj Žižek

3. Moving Images of Eternity: Powers in DifferenceStephen David Ross

4. The Work of Experience: Schelling on a Thinking beyond Image and ConceptMarcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

5. Animalization: Schelling and the Problem of ExpressivityJason M. Wirth

Part 2. Rethinking Contexts

6. God's Footstool: A Note on the Source for Schelling's Description of the Olympian Zeus in the 1811 Draft of The Ages of the WorldDavid Farrell Krell

7. The Electromagnetic Orgasm and the Narrative of Primordiality in Schelling's 1815 Cosmic HistoryMartin Wallen

8. A Monstrous Absolute: Schelling, Kant, and the Poetic Turn in PhilosophyTheodore D. George

9. A Blasphemous Monologue: Technologies and Metaphysics of the Imagination in Schelling's Ages of the WorldF. Scott Scribner

Part 3. Schelling and Contemporary Philosophy

10. Reading Schelling after Heidegger: The Freedom of Cryptic DialoguePeter Warnek

11. Creativity and the Unconscious in Merleau-Ponty and SchellingPatrick Burke

12: Eternity and Time: Levinas Returns to SchellingFiona Steinkamp

13. "Giving Way to . . . Freedom": A Note after Nancy and SchellingBenjamin S. Pryor

14. The Problem of Evil and Difference: A Report on Nishitani's Relationship to SchellingEiko Hanaoka

Further Reading

Contributors

Index