The Palgrave Schelling Handbook

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, multi-authored study of Schelling's thought, its context, and its enormous influence. Divided into four major sections ('Periods,' 'Themes,' 'Figures and the History of Philosophy', and 'Reception and Legacy'), it is a well-structured guide to Schelling's work and the ways in which it relates to other thinkers and movements. Key features:. Links Schelling to the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and theology. Offers a systematic overview of a thinker whose thought evolved through three main periods. Explores the importance of Schelling in the development of German Idealism more broadly. Updates the English-speaking academic community with current German research on Schelling.. Responding to Schelling's renewed scholarly prominence, The Palgrave Schelling Handbook. provides a contemporary and authoritative re-consideration of his thought. Within its pages, scholars and researchers will find avenues and inspiration for new work in areas that have been previously underrepresented in Schelling studies. The Palgrave Schelling Handbook. is the ideal reference work for advanced philosophy and theology students taking courses on Schelling or German Idealism. It will have wide, general appeal to scholars and students of philosophy, theology, political theory, and German studies. Sean J. McGrath is a Full Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland. McGrath is a specialist in the philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. He has published and lectured widely in German Idealism, phenomenology, ecology, theology, and psychoanalysis. Joseph Carew is an Instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley. He specializes in German Idealism and nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy. He is the author of Ontological Catastrophe: Žižek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism. and co-editor of Rethinking German Idealism. Kyla Bruff is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University. Her current research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French social and political philosophy. Bruff publishes and lectures on German Idealism, critical theory, political philosophy, existentialism, French post-structuralism, and Romanticism.