The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Sigla xiii Part I Orientations CHAPTER ONE The Reawakening of the Barbarian Principle 3 Jason M. Wirth CHAPTER TWO Prefatory Meditations 23 Patrick Burke Part II Schelling and the Question of Nature CHAPTER THREE Unfolding the Hidden Logos (Or: Much Ado about Nothing) 41 Joseph P. Lawrence CHAPTER FOUR Schelling on Plato’s Timaeus 59 Kyriaki Goudeli CHAPTER FIVE On the Relation Between Nature and History in Schelling’s Freedom Essay and Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise 77 Jeffrey A. Bernstein viii Contents CHAPTER SIX Eternal Times: Schelling on Creation, Contemporaneity, and the Unconscious 101 Vasiliki Tsakiri Part III Merleau-Ponty and Schelling in Conversation Section 1: Overviews CHAPTER SEVEN Être sauvage and the Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling 121 Robert Vallier CHAPTER EIGHT Être brut or Nature: Merleau-Ponty Surveys Schelling 149 Josep Maria Bech Section 2: Particular Themes CHAPTER NINE Freedom as the Experience of Nature: Schelling and Merleau-Ponty on the Open Space in Nature 189 Annette Hilt CHAPTER TEN Finding the Body’s Place in Nature: Merleau-Ponty on Schelling’s “Phenomenology of Pre-Reflective Being” 211 Angelica Nuzzo CHAPTER ELEVEN Nature and Self-Knowledge: On Schelling’s Ambiguous Role in Merleau-Ponty’s The Concept of Nature 225 Carolyn Culbertson CHAPTER TWELVE Reading the Barbarous Source: Merleau-Ponty’s Structural History and Schelling 241 Stephen H. Watson ix Contents CHAPTER THIRTEEN Nature’s Inside 273 Bernard Flynn Section 3: Art and Nature CHAPTER FOURTEEN Listening for the Voice of the Light: Mythical Time through the Musical Idea 287 Jessica Wiskus CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Eye and the Spirit of Nature: Some Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Reading of Schelling Concerning the Relationship between Art and Nature 307 Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Art of Nature: On the Agony of the Will in Schelling and Merleau-Ponty 321 Jason M. Wirth Contributors 341 Index 347 ...