The Absolute and the Event: Schelling after Heidegger

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What does Heideggers controversial notion of the Event mean Can it be read as an historical prophecy connected to his political affinity with Nazism And what has this concept to do with the possibility of a new beginning for Western philosophy after Schelling and Nietzsche This book highlights the theoretical affinity between the results of Schellings speculations and Heideggers later theories. Heidegger dedicated a seminar to Schellings Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom in 1927-28, immediately after the publication of his Sein und Zeit. He then returned to this work during the courses he taught in 1936 and again in 1941, with lectures dedicated to the Metaphysics of German Idealism. Heideggers introduction of the Event is reminiscent of Schellings effort to think of being in its organic connection to time, and is such a new form of Schellings positive philosophy. Thanks to a concept of being intimately linked to that of time, these latter of Heideggers theories culminate in a form of positive, historical philosophy as well as with a definition of a post-metaphysical Absolute that, in close connection with primal Nothingness, is beyond any form of onto-theology. It also reveals close connections to Nietzsches introduction of the eternal recurrence, which rethinks being as a never-ending becoming.

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From Schelling to Nietzsche and back again. That is the path indicated by Heidegger and retraced in an original way by Corriero, who in this book masterfully reconstructs the suggestive affinities between Heidegger's Event and Schelling's Absolute. -- Massimo Cacciari
This important study turns to the late Schellings positive philosophy to cast new light on Heideggers own path of thinking, especially his turn to das Ereignis (the event). It is a significant development in our appreciation of Heidegger and it also demonstrates the continuing importance of the rediscovery of Schelling as one of the most indispensable of the early Continental thinkers. * Jason M. Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USA *
This book is clearly the richest account of Heideggers appropriation of Schellings philosophizing yet written. In an important contribution to this centurys Schellingian revival, Corriero, a subtle master of the history of modern thought, compellingly argues that Schellings persistent reconception of nature presciently provides contemporary metaphysics with the ontogenetic means to survive the ruins of ontology over which Heidegger has for so long presided. * Iain Hamilton Grant, Senior Lecturer of Philosophy, University of the West of England, United Kingdom *

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Emilio Carlo Corriero is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.