Schelling, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Nature (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy)

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Scepticism Regarding the Philosophy of Nature
	The Principles of Idealism
	Nature-Philosophical Explanation
	Emergence
	The Difference Between Schelling and Hegel
	Final Introductory Remarks
	Notes
Part 1 Schelling
	1 Subjectivity in Nature
		Schelling’s Intellectual Development
		Speculative Physics After Transcendental Idealism
			I Transcendental Idealism
			II Philosophy of Nature
			III Absolute Idealism
		Nature as Impersonal Subject
		Reason in Nature
		Notes
	2 Dynamics, Physics, Organics
		The Fundamental Forces of Nature
		Why There Is a Material World
		Magnetism, Electricity, and the Chemical Process
		Life: Between the Inorganic and Spiritual
		Sensibility, Irritability, and Formative Drive
		Kinds of Life
		Notes
	3 The Generation of Spirit
		The Human Organism
		Spinozism and the Essay On Human Freedom
		Identity Reconsidered
		Indifference and Difference
			I ‘Essentialism’
			II Being and Negation
		Freedom for Good and Evil
		Freedom, Necessity, Will
		Notes
Part 2 Hegel
	4 Nature as Self-External Reason
		The Young Hegel
		From Nature’s Powers to Its Logical Process
		An Ontology of Movement
		From Reason to Nature
		The Logic of the ‘Free Release’
		Implications for the Philosophy of Nature
		Notes
			The Priority of Nature and the Place of Spirit in the System
	5 Nature’s Logic
		Nature’s System of Stages
		Emergentism Contra Organicism
		Speculative Physics and Empirical Physics
		Notes
	6 The Self-Formation of Matter
		Space
		Time
		Matter in Motion
		Falling Bodies
		Celestial Motion and the Mechanical Stirrings of Real Freedom
		Self-Formation as Qualitative Differentiation
		Emergent Immateriality: Light
		Notes
	7 Life and the Liberation of Spirit
		Chemical Processes and ‘The Chemical Process’
		The Earth: Ground of Life
		The Plant: The Emergence of Life as Such
		The Animal: Life Fully Realised
		Death and the Spirit as Phoenix
		The Inner Unity of Spirit
		Thought
		From Nature to Spirit: Continuity and Negation
		Notes
Part 3 Conclusion
	8 Logical Emergence and the History of Nature
		The Late Schelling’s Critique of Hegel
		Two Kinds of Becoming
		The Implications of Understanding Nature as Negative
		Nature’s Past
		Notes
Bibliography
Index