Philosophies of Nature after Schelling

Presenting a lucid account of Schelling's major works in the philosophy of nature alongside those of his scientific contemporaries who pursued and furthered that work, this book does not simply aim to present Schelling's extravagant 'speculative physic

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

xi

Why Schelling? Why Naturephilosophy?

1

(25)

Postkantian naturephilosophy

6

(8)

The nature of postkantianism

14

(5)

The history of philosophy as the comparative extensity of philosophical systems

19

(7)

The Powers Due to Becoming: The Reemergence of Platonic Physics in the Genetic Philosophy

26

(33)

Essences and appearances: The dephysicalization of great physics

30

(10)

The physics of the All and the physics of all things

32

(2)

Matter, body and substance

34

(1)

Kosmos noetos

35

(5)

The becoming of Being: `Gene' and dynamics in Platonic physics

40

(6)

Natural history

46

(13)

Antiphysics and Neo-Fichteanism

59

(60)

Late transcendental physics and philosophy: Kant and somatism

62

(19)

The genetics of transcendentalism

64

(2)

Transcendental philosophy as relative antiphysics

66

(3)

Megabodies and superstrata

69

(1)

Ground and superstratum in transcendental philosophy

70

(3)

Megabodies: Somatic aether physics

73

(2)

Dynamic aether physics

75

(6)

Metaphysics as antiphysics: Fichteanism and the number of worlds

81

(11)

Organics as antiphysics: Fichte contra Oken

92

(10)

Oken's generative history: Mathematics and the animal

94

(3)

Naturephilosophy without nature: Fichte's `essence of animals'

97

(5)

Antiphysics and the grounds of science

102

(17)

The Natural History of the Unthinged

119

(39)

`The earliest programme of German comparative zoology'

120

(18)

The natural history of transcendental anatomy

122

(4)

Physics and the animal kingdom

126

(3)

Linear and non-linear usages of the theory of recapitulation

129

(1)

Linearity

129

(3)

The genetic problem

132

(2)

Non-linearity: A new epoch in natural history

134

(4)

The factors of parallelism: The dynamic succession of stages in nature

138

(20)

`What thinks in me is what is outside me': Phenomenality, Physics, and the Idea

158

(29)

The subject of nature itself

160

(11)

The decomposition of intelligence

171

(16)

Dynamic Philosophy, Transcendental Physics

187

(12)

Conclusion: Transcendental Geology

199

(8)

Bibliography

207

(18)

Index

225

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