The current wave of critical and historical engagement with idealist texts affords an unprecedented opportunity to discover the richness and value of the thought of F. W. J. Schelling. In this volume leading scholars offer compelling reasons to regard Schelling as one of Kant's most incisive interpreters, a pioneering philosopher of nature, a resolute philosopher of human finitude and freedom, a nuanced thinker of the bounds of logic and self-consciousness, and perhaps Hegel's most effective critic. The volume provides a wide-ranging presentation of Schelling's original contribution to, and internal critique of, the basic insights of German idealism, his role in shaping the course of post-Kantian thought, and his sensitivity and innovative responses to questions of lasting metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and theological importance.

Part I. Schelling's Early Philosophy1: Nature as the World of Action, Not of Speculation: Schelling's Critique of Kant's Postulates in Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism, Lara Ostaric2: Schelling's Romanticism: Traces of Novalis in Schelling's Philosophy, Joan SteigerwaldPart II. Schelling's Philosophy of Nature3: Freedom as Productivity in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature, Naomi Fisher4: From World-Soul to Universal Organism: Maimon's Hypothesis and Schelling's Physicalization of a Platonic-Kabbalistic Concept, Paul Franks5: Deus Sive Vernunft: Schelling's Transformation of Spinoza's God, Yitzhak Melamed6: Schelling on Eternal Choice and the Temporal Order of Nature, Brady BowmanPart III. Schelling's Philosophy of Freedom7: Schelling on the Compatibility of Freedom and Systematicity, Markus Gabriel8: The Personal, Evil, and the Possibility of Philosophy in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift, Richard Velkley9: Nature, Freedom, and Gender in Schelling, Alison Stone10: The Facticity of Time: Conceiving Schelling's Idealism of Ages, G. Anthony BrunoPart IV. Schelling's Late Philosophy11: Thought's Indebtedness to Being: From Kant's Beweisgrund to Schelling's Quelle, Sebastian Gardner12: An 'Ethics for the Transition': Schelling's Critique of Negative Philosophy and its Significance for Environmental Thought, Dalia Nassar

G. Anthony Bruno is assistant professor in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests include Kant, German idealism, and phenomenology. He is author of numerous articles and chapters on Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy and is co-editor (with A.C. Rutherford) of Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries (Routledge 2018).

Brady Bowman, Pennsylvania State UniversityNaomi Fisher, Loyola University ChicagoPaul Franks, Yale UniversityMarkus Gabriel, University of BonnSebastian Gardner, University College LondonYitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins UniversityDalia Nassar, University of SydneyLara Ostaric, Temple UniversityJoan Steigerwald, York UniversityAlison Stone, Lancaster UniversityRichard Velkley, Tulane University