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The State as “a Consequence of the Curse of Humanity”: The Late Schelling’s Philosophy of Religion and of the State

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the hitherto neglected political philosophy (Staatsphilosophie) contained in Schelling’s Berlin lectures on the philosophy of mythology and of revelation in the context of the complex and politically charged debates of the German Vormärz period. It will be shown that, in his political philosophy, the Berlin Schelling rejects social contract models of the state and follows conservative theorists who conceive of the state as a collective order that supersedes the individual, while at the same time preserving the freedom of the individual and rejecting religious legitimizations of the state. Schelling’s theory of the state is characterized by its distinctive internal tensions and by its multidimensionality. This complexity of his theory of the state helps to account for the diverse range of receptions and assessments of his political philosophy, both among his contemporaries and by subsequent commentators


Correction Note

Originally, also the article Jennifer Gurley, Deveotional Emerson was published under this DOI. Its correct DOI is 10.1515/znth-2015-1002.


Online erschienen: 2015-6-11
Erschienen im Druck: 2014-4-15

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