Schelling And Spinoza - Benjamin Norris

Presents A Novel Interpretation Of Schelling''s Philosophy By Way Of His Reading And Critique Of Spinoza.schelling And Spinoza Reconstructs Schelling''s Reading Of Spinoza''s Metaphysics To Better Understand The Roles Realism And Idealism Play In Schelling''s Work. Schelling Initially Praises Spinoza''s Monism But Comes To Criticize The Lifelessness Produced By Spinoza''s Dualistic Account Of The Relation Between Thought And Existence. By Turning To Schelling''s Notion Of The Absolute, Author Benjamin Norris Presents A Novel Reading Of Schelling''s Early And Middle Philosophical Endeavors As A Kind Of Ideal-realism Dependent On The Hyphen That Marks Both The Identity And The Non-identity Of Realism And Idealism.