Abbreviations Works by Schelling Prologue First Part: Odysseys of Freedom § 1. The Turn to the Ideal § 2. The Beginning is where System and Freedom are One § 3. Identity in the Freedom Essay § 4. Excursus. The Origins of Schelling's Theory of Identity I. The Plato-Kant Lineage II. The Leibniz-Ploucquet Lineage § 5 The Logic of Ground and the Reimagining of Pantheism § 6 The Logic of Ground between the Real and the Ideal § 7.
The Distinction within God between Ground and That-Which-Exists § 8. Ground and Understanding, the Forces behind the Process of Creation § 9. Ground and the Possibility of Evil §10 Actual Evil: no Capacity for God without the Capacity for Evil § 11. Universal Evil or Human Evil? § 12. The Formal Concept of Freedom § 14. The Intelligible Deed and its Problems § 15. Redeeming the Intelligible Deed? Two Proposals § 16. From One to All: The Internal Development of God § 17.
The Ungrund § 18. Intermezzo: Schelling in Stuttgart § 19. The System as the Identity of the Real and the Ideal § 20. Excursus: Identity as a Theory of Potencies Figure 1: The Magnetic Line § 21. The First Potency as Contractive Force § 22. Seyn and Seyendes; the Quest for Personality § 23. Freedom, Potency, and the Temporalization of Logic § 24. Madness and the Real § 25.
Clara: Past, Self and Other Second Part: The Ages of the World § 26. The 'Grand Ruins' of the Ages of the World § 27. The Philosopher's Secret: Schelling's Starting Point § 28. The Past: 1811 I. Lucid Purity II. The Emergence of Two Wills III. Homeostasis and Palingenesis IV. Struggle and Rotation V.
The Trinity in Crisis § 29. The Past: 1813 I. Lucid Purity, Freedom and Contradiction II. The Two Wills, Revisited III. The Play of the Potencies IV. Separation and Decision § 30. The Past: 1815 I. The Eternal Past II.
The Rotation of the Potencies III. The Free Decision to Begin IV. Krisis, Time, and the Ecstasy of Existence V. From Decision to Creation Figure 2: The World-Formula VI. The Results of 1815: A Brief Account of the Beginning § 31. The Deities of Samothrace § 32. Thinking the Beginning for Oneself: The Erlangen 'Initiation' § 33. The Macrocosm as the Subject of the Complete System of Philosophy § 34.
Knowing, Not-knowing, and Ecstasy § 35. Two New Versions of the Potencies §36. The Absolute and its Nemesis Inconclusive Postscript: 'How Deep is the Well of the Past!' Bibliography.