Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction

Chepurin Kirill

doi:10.2307/j.ctv11991k0.4

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Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction

P. 35-53.

Chepurin K.

This paper explores the relation between world-annihilation and world-construction in Schelling, Fichte, and Friedrich Schlegel, in light of a central question: how to think the world without absolutizing or justifying it – to (re-)construct a world, or the way the world is or could be, without falling into the logic of justification – while accounting for the world’s being-there, as fact or problem?

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Keywords: German idealism nothingness Schelling Hegel Fichte Friedrich Schlegel system

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Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction

Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology

NY: Fordham University Press, 2021.

Debating Ancient Ordinances: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling And Count Sergey Semionovich Uvarov

Rezvykh P. V. Humanities. HUM. Basic Research Programme, 2013. No. 24/HUM/2013.

Using a discussion on the significance of Ancient Greek ordinances between F.W.J. Schelling and Count S.S. Uvarov as an example, this article analyses the complex interaction between theological, philosophical, religious, and political factors in the reception of Schelling’s philosophical ideas in Russia in the XIX century.

Added: May 2, 2013

Berliner Schelling Studien. Heft 3. Vorträge zu Schellings Philosophie

Edited by: E. Hahn. Berlin: Total Verlag, 2008.

Added: Feb 24, 2013

Концепты хаоса и порядка. Введение

Зусман В. Г. В кн.: Концепты хаоса и порядка в естественных и гуманитарных науках. Н. Новгород: Деком, 2011. С. 9-17.

The introduction describes the concept in the "hard"and "soft" sciences.

Added: Nov 10, 2012

Герцен и Гегель: об истории и Наполеоне

Рапопорт Е. В. В кн.: Философия. Язык. Культура (Вып.3). Вып. 3. СПб.: Алетейя, 2012. Гл. 16. С. 177-193.

This paper provides some comparison of Herzen’s and Hegel’s notions on philosophy of history and claims to represent Herzen, anatomizing the situation of European riots of the mid. 19th century, as а thinker of current interest. While Herzen asserts that history is a development process with no predetermined goal, Hegel (whose works were very important for Russian intellectuals of Herzen’s generation) proclaims that history has already ended with the Napoleon’s Empire and his own — Hegel’s — philosophy.

Added: Feb 16, 2013

«Феноменология духа» Гегеля в контексте современного гегелеведения

М.: Канон+, 2010.

Added: Apr 10, 2013

Schellings Rede über die Bibelgesellschaften.

Petr Rezvykh. .. 2007. Vol. 14. No. 1. P. 1-48.

Added: Feb 24, 2013

Проблема конца истории в свете гегелевской диалектики раба и господина

Рапопорт Е. В. Вестник Российского государственного гуманитарного университета. 2011. № 15. С. 79-86.

References to the problem of the End of History are not infrequent in various political, cultural and philosophic discussions. This notion is often postulated as something quite apparent or as something of great influence and which nevertheless both are attemted to be refuted. The purpose of the paper is to follow philosophic roots of this conception and observe conditions and stages in its development.

Added: Nov 22, 2012

Die Rezeption der Philosophie Schellings in Russland

Rezvykh P. V. In bk.: Philosophisches Jahrbuch der Görres-Gesellschaft. 2.Halbband. Freiburg: Karl Aber Verlag, 2003. P. 347-358.

Added: Feb 28, 2013

Hegel's "Objective Spirit", extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action

Boldyrev I., Herrmann-Pillath C. Mind and Society. 2012. P. 1-26.

This paper explores the implications of the recent revival of Hegel studies for the philosophy of economics. We argue that Hegel's theory of Objective Spirit anticipates many elements of modern approaches in cognitive sciences and of the philosophy of mind, which adopt an externalist framework. In particular, Hegel pre-empts the theories of social and distributed cognition. The pivotal elements of Hegelian social ontology are the continuity thesis, the performativity thesis, and the recognition thesis, which, when taken together, imply that all mental processes are essentially dependent on externalizations, with the underlying pattern of actions being performative. In turn, performative action is impossible without mutual recognition in an intersubjective domain. We demonstrate the implications for economic theory in sketching an externalist approach to institutions and preferences.

Added: Feb 7, 2013

Hegel’s “Objective Spirit” and its Contemporary Relevance for the Philosophy of Economics

Boldyrev I., Herrmann-Pillath C. Humanities. HUM. Basic Research Programme, 2012. No. 05.

This paper explores the implications of the recent revival of Hegel studies for the philosophy of economics. We argue that Hegel’s theory of Objective Spirit anticipates many elements of modern approaches in cognitive sciences and of the philosophy of mind, which adopt an externalist framework. In particular, Hegel pre-empts the theories of social and distributed cognition. The pivotal elements of Hegelian social ontology are the continuity thesis, the performativity thesis, and the recognition thesis, which, when taken together, imply that all mental processes are essentially dependent on externalizations, with the underlying pattern of actions being performative. In turn, performative action is impossible without mutual recognition in an intersubjective domain. We demonstrate the implications for economic theory in sketching an externalist approach to institutions and preferences.

Added: Aug 27, 2012