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Abstract
Schelling's unfinished novella/dialog from the early years of his turn to philosophy of spirit presents arguments for personal immortality, but in a narrative form. Characters that represent nature and mind try to rescue the usually equanimous Clara from psychological crisis occasioned by her husband's death and consequent intellectual perplexities about personal survival. Their arguments illustrate Schelling's reformulated Spinozistic metaphysics: expressivism. On this theory, a Wesenheit or creative essence manifests in both physical and psychic dimensions but is itself nothing other than the connection between the two. Clara, doctor, and pastor symbolize these three functions while their personae fashion arguments that psychic and somatic phenomena can never be separated, hence that death must signify a transformation into a more spiritual psychosomatic mode of being. The arguments are problematic at best, but the narrative invokes Romantic tropes such as the limits of conceptual language, the possibility of a natural style of communicating philosophy, and reference to then contemporary 'empirical' phenomena such as clairvoyance and hypnotic sleep. The unfinished character of the piece reinforces the impression of ineluctability of the self, which seems to exist only in diaspora as nostalgia or anticipation.

"Schelling has undergone his philosophical education before the public" - so G. W. F. Hegel in criticism of the novel systematic projects which his philosophical ally and later rival F. W. J. Schelling successively made public. Today, however, Hegel's derisive judgment can be seen not to hold: Instead, it is much rather the case that Schelling's productivity expresses the genuine continuity of his thought. Moreover, his thought is attractive precisely because it embodies an inconclusive - perhaps the never-ending - search for an abiding philosophical orientation in an ever more complex world

Intro -- J. G. Fichte/F. W. J. Schelling -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Trajectory of German Philosophy After Kant, and the "Difference"Between Fichte and Schelling -- J. G. Fichte/F. W. J. Schelling Correspondence (1800-1802) -- Introduction to the Texts of J. G. Fichte -- J. G. Fichte -- Announcement -- New Version of the Wissenschaftslehre (1800) [Extract] -- Commentaries on Schelling's Transcendental Idealism and Presentation of My System of Philosophy (1800-1801) -- Introduction to F. W. J. Schelling's Presentation of My System of Philosophy1(1801) and Further Presentations from the System of Philosophy (1802) [Extract] -- Presentation of My System of Philosophy (1801)Preface -- Notes -- Notes to Introduction -- Notes to Fichte-Schelling Correspondence -- Notes to Fichte Texts -- Notes to Schelling Texts -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy