Theology, Ontotheology, and Eschatology in Schelling’s Late Thought

How are we to understand the thematization of revelation at the heart of Schelling’s late thought—as the accomplishment of Idealism as science of the Absolute or as a metaphysical elaboration of Christianity? I will argue that the Schelling of the Spätphilosophie is not an Idealist on account of his rupture with ontotheology; neither does he abandon the philosophical for the theological. Schelling insists on the limited nature of a philosophy of the Absolute and complements it with a philosophy in which God as God successively but never finally reveals himself in history. He is thus a philosophical eschatologist.