Abstract
A description of the main tenets of F.W.J. Schelling's identity philosophy, to which he was committed from May 1801 until as late as 1809. I argue that Schelling's unfashionable appeal to identity as the central concept in the philosophical enterprise is born out of a concern to restrict the domain of philosophical speculation and thereby make room for other discourses (the natural sciences, theology, history, art, etc.) to speak of a world of qualitatively-differentiated finite entities.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Palgrave Schelling Handbook |
| Editors | Kyla Bruff, Sean McGrath, Joseph Carew |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave |
| Pages | 98-119 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783031183355 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2025 |