Lamps, Rainbows and Horizons
Spatializing Knowledge in Naturphilosophical Epistemology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774587 |
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| Authors | Ben Woodard (0000-0001-6017-5193, Association PAF, 15 rue Haute, 02820 Saint-Erme-Outre-et-Ramecourt, France) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 23-41 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2016.1229415 |
| OpenAlex | W2554322514 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In the present essay I address the apparently problematic status of epistemology in F.W.J. Schelling's work. Given the (at times) overblown emphasis on Schelling's anti-Kantianism, there would seem to be little hope in articulating anything like a theory of knowledge in Schelling's thought. For the sake of brevity I emphasize knowledge's spatial and navigational functions in Schelling's texts. For Schelling, the navigational is that which locates, and constructively constrains, the capacity of the subject to synthesize. This is accomplished, I argue, via a spatialized reading of Schelling's concept of intellectual intuition. While this form of intuition initially resembles that of Fichte's, Schelling transforms the term, using it in tandem with construction, in order to maintain both the sensory immediacy, yet abstract form, of intuition as the initial means a knowing subject, immersed in the activities of nature, comes to recognize its own capacities and begins to form claims about the world
Epistemology · Immediacy · Intuition · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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