The Eternal Concept of the Individual: A Historical, Philological and Systematic Study on Mystical Reason and its Reception in Schelling s Works - Part – Part II: Schelling's Late Philosophy (1827–1846)

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Andrés Quero-Sánchez
• Subject Area: Roman Catholic Theology
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 267359362

After having analysed the influence of mystical literature (of Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, the Pseudo-Taulerian Book of Spiritual Poverty, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Philipp Matthaeus Hahn, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Franz von Baader) on Schelling up to 1826, I am going to investigate the influence of even these same authors (as well as that of Johann Albrecht Bengel) on Schelling's writings from 1827 until 1846, that is to say: on the works written during his second period in Munich and the years in Berlin. My interest focuses now on Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation and his Philosophy of Mythology as well as on the relationship existing between the positive and the negative philosophy. Some mystical authors, like Boehme, Hahn, Bengel and Oetinger, seem to have been crucial for Schelling's development of both the concept of Revelation and the concept of Mythology. Now, this does not mean that Schelling's late philosophy should be considered as a Kind of irrationalistic account, but, on the contrast, he was trying to find the rational structure underlying mysticism, in order to make it useful for the philosophical debates at that time. In this second period of the Research Project, I am also particularly interested in the relationship between Aristotelism and Platonism in Schelling's latest writings, as well as in his reading of those passages in Oetinger in which he was - indirectly - quoting from Meister Eckhart.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants