{"id":6696,"date":"2026-07-06T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.disciplinefilosofiche.it\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:11:27","slug":"discipline-filosofiche-xxxv-2-2025-schelling-and-his-kantian-legacy-metaphysical-and-epistemological-perspectives-a-cura-di-tommaso-mauri-e-ludovica-neri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.disciplinefilosofiche.it\/en\/ultimi-numeri\/discipline-filosofiche-xxxv-2-2025-schelling-and-his-kantian-legacy-metaphysical-and-epistemological-perspectives-a-cura-di-tommaso-mauri-e-ludovica-neri\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline Filosofiche XXXV, 2, 2025: Schelling and His Kantian Legacy: Metaphysical and Epistemological Perspectives. Edited by Tommaso Mauri and Ludovica Neri"},"content":{"rendered":"

XXXV, 2, 2025: Schelling and His Kantian Legacy: Metaphysical and Epistemological Perspectives. Edited by Tommaso Mauri and Ludovica Neri<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"copertina-2016-1-fronte\"<\/a>To inquire into Schelling\u2019s Kantian legacy means to take a position regarding the interpretation of German Idealism as a whole. Schelling\u2019s long speculative journey spans the entire classical German philosophy, from its critical-transcendental beginnings to its post-Hegelian legacy. It is no coincidence that the deepening of Schelling scholarship has led to a revision of the traditional Hegelian-inspired historiography that depicts classical German philosophy as the path \u201cfrom Kant to Hegel\u201d (R. Kroner, Von Kant bis Hegel<\/em>, Mohr Siebeck, T\u00fcbingen, 1921-1924). Starting from the second half of the twentieth century, new hermeneutical approaches have emerged that challenge this linear picture, suggesting the existence of a second path<\/em> within German idealism, one that leads \u201cfrom Kant to Schelling\u201d (M. Vet\u00f6, De Kant \u00e0 Schelling: les deux voies de l\u2019id\u00e9alisme allemand<\/em>, Millon, Grenoble, 1998-2000). As this already suggests, what is at stake is not a merely historiographical dispute, but the articulation of a clear and substantive theoretical stance. To follow the path \u201cfrom Kant to Schelling\u201d means to set aside the claims of an absolute, all-encompassing reason and to acknowledge the structural limits of our cognitive faculties in relation to reality. From this, however, it does not follow that one must adopt a disillusioned philosophical attitude or resort to a sterile affirmation of existence, history, and radical freedom as irreducible to the concept. On the contrary, even while recognizing its constitutive finitude, reason cannot avoid inquiring into what exceeds it. Hence the need to widen the boundaries of reason itself: from the theoretical to the practical (Kant), from the negative to the positive (Schelling). In this sense, then, Schelling\u2019s late project of a \u201cself-restraint\u201d of idealism (T. Buchheim, Eins von Allem. Die Selbstbescheidung des Idealismus in Schellings Sp\u00e4tphilosophie<\/em>, Meiner, Hamburg, 1992) is closely bound up with his intention to carry forward Kant\u2019s project of a critique of reason (A. Hutter, Geschichtliche Vernunft. Die Weiterf\u00fchrung der kantischen Vernunftkritik in der Sp\u00e4tphilosophie Schellings<\/em>, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1996). Contrary to a still widespread commonplace, which portrays him as returning to a na\u00efve, pre-critical philosophy \u2013 or even as taking refuge in some form of mysticism or theosophy \u2013 the late Schelling engages deeply with Kant\u2019s transcendental-critical legacy, with the aim of providing a theoretical legitimation for the transition toward a historical-positive philosophy capable of once again pronouncing a metaphysical word on those ideas (God, soul, world, freedom), the knowledge of which had been forbidden by the Transcendental Dialectic.
In light of the ongoing reinterpretation of German Idealism \u201cfrom Kant to Schelling\u201d and of the fruitfulness of Schelling\u2019s thought for both his contemporaries and present-day philosophy, this volume aims to highlight the attitude Schelling maintained throughout his entire intellectual trajectory \u2013 at once faithful to Kant\u2019s thought and yet critical of some of its central philosophical claims. Through this attitude, Schelling exhibited a form of creative fidelity<\/em> to the Kantian legacy, one that enabled him to move, together with Kant, beyond<\/em> Kant\u2019s own philosophy. It was this twofold movement, grounded in a return to the fundamental premises of Kant\u2019s thought and in an in-depth engagement with his major works \u2013 from the Critique of Pure Reason<\/em> (1781\/1787\u00b2) and the Critique of Practical Reason<\/em> (1788) to the Critique of the Power of Judgment<\/em> (1790), from the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science<\/em> (1786) to Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason<\/em> (1793), etc. \u2013, that led Schelling to attempt to understand Kant \u201cwhere he has not yet followed through to the consequences\u201d, to use the expression found in the Philosophy of Revelation<\/em> (1842\/43), albeit in the context of his critique of Hegel. This twofold movement led Schelling, across the various phases of his philosophical development and in relation to different topics, to a rethinking of Kantian philosophy. It was that rethinking, which in our view allows Schelling\u2019s thought to be interpreted from a genuinely post-Kantian<\/em> perspective (as the beginning of new theoretical paths critically<\/em> elaborated after and through Kant, rather than a return to a merely dogmatic<\/em> or pre-critical<\/em> standpoint), that made possible the emergence \u2013 both then and now \u2013 of new metaphysical and epistemological perspectives<\/em> concerning our cognitive relation to the world and our practical action within it. These are the perspectives that this volume seeks to bring out, in light of the different ways Schelling\u2019s position \u2013 both faithful and critical toward Kant \u2013 has been interpreted.
The breadth and depth of this position emerge from the way Schelling, from his earliest writings to his most mature works, engaged first of all with the fundamental issues of Kantian criticism: from synthetic a priori judgments as the decisive starting point for reflecting on the Absolute as subject (Binkelmann), to the transcendental ideal of pure reason and its reconfiguration through the intellectual intuition of an \u201cabsolute I\u201d (Garc\u00eda-Romero), to the difficulty \u2013 already recognized by Kant and central to the reflections of Schelling, Fichte, and Hegel \u2013 of thinking together the radical freedom of the creature and the unconditional causality of God, a difficulty that the later Schelling attempts to resolve definitively (Buchheim). These fundamental issues, which reveal the sophisticated character of Schelling\u2019s re-reading of Kant\u2019s thought, form the background to other questions \u2013 equally crucial but more specific \u2013 at which Schelling arrived almost as a consequence of the unfolding of those premises never fully developed by Kant himself. For example: a rethinking of the specific way of understanding freedom, not as \u201cself-determining reason\u201d but as \u201cother-regarding love\u201d (McKinley) or in light of its creative and \u201cre-creative\u201d role within nature\u2019s ongoing process of self-unfolding (Corriero); the reinterpretation of Kant\u2019s transcendental idealism as \u201cinverted transcendentalism\u201d (Tritten); the revision of the a priori form of space in terms of \u201cvastness and freedom\u201d (Neri); and finally, the connection between the abyss of reason in Kant\u2019s experience of the sublime and its ecstatic character in Schelling (Porchia), the reconfiguration of the concepts of happiness, highest good, and bliss (Mauri), and the role of imagination in the conception of the Christian religion (Alves). Far from exhausting the themes Schelling addressed in his critical re-engagement with Kant\u2019s philosophy, these studies nonetheless highlight the fruitfulness of an inheritance that, in our view, leads Schelling in certain respects beyond<\/em> the strictly rationalistic tendencies of post-Kantian Idealism and renders his thought still relevant today. Such relevance not only explains why, in the 250th anniversary of his birth \u2013 celebrated this year and commemorated by this volume \u2013 Schelling\u2019s thought continues to arouse interest, but also grounds the intention of the present volume to invigorate research on Schelling in Italy from an international perspective. It does so by situating itself in the wake of other recent contributions, and by aiming to open further avenues of investigation into his thought and into the critical and fertile legacy of Kant\u2019s philosophy \u2013 the philosopher from whom, according to Schelling, one must always begin anew if one intends to do philosophy.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong>
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Tommaso Mauri, Ludovica Neri, Introduction
Christoph Binkelmann, Wie sind synthetische Urteile a priori m\u00f6glich? Kant und Schelling \u00fcber den \u201egemeinschaftlichen Punkt aller Philosophie\u201c<\/a>
Marcela Garc\u00eda-Romero, \u201cA Natural and Unstoppable Drive Toward Totality\u201d: Schelling\u2019s Transformed Reading of Kant<\/a>
Thomas Buchheim, \u00abMa una difficolt\u00e0 incombe ancora sulla libert\u00e0\u2026\u00bb<\/a>
Robert McKinley, From Self-Determining Reason to Other-Regarding Love: Schelling\u2019s Critique of Kant\u2019s Concept of Freedom<\/a>
Emilio Carlo Corriero, Ricreazione. Natura e libert\u00e0 da Kant a Schelling<\/a>
Tyler Tritten, Empirical Realism or Speculative Realism? The Future of Transcendental Philosophy<\/a>
Ludovica Neri, Libert\u00e0 e spazio nel confronto dell\u2019ultimo Schelling con l\u2019Estetica trascendentale di Kant<\/a>
Francesco Porchia, Riflessioni sull\u2019abisso. Schelling lettore di Kant: dal sublime all\u2019estasi della ragione<\/a>
Tommaso Mauri, Happiness, Morality, and Bliss: Schelling and Kant on the Highest Good<\/a>
Vittorio Bortolai A. Alves, Imagination and the Construction of Christian Religion in Schelling and Kant<\/a> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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