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Naomi Fisher, Schelling’s Mystical Platonism 1792-1802, Oxford University Press, 2024, 248pp., $90.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780197752883.
Reviewed by Daniel Whistler, Royal Holloway, University of London
Naomi Fisher’s Schelling’s Mystical Platonism has at last given English-language scholarship a monument to F. W. J. Schelling’s early Platonism to rival Werner Beierwaltes’ work in German and Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron’s work in French.
It pulls this off by way of four major interventions. First, Fisher understands Schelling’s unique place within the post-Kantian philosophical landscape in light of his “mystical Platonism”, i.e., his claim that “everything is grounded in the inarticulable absolute” (209). That is, what makes Schelling distinctive in relation to his contemporaries is twofold. (a) Schelling is to be labelled a Platonist primarily because of his commitment to a priority monism, that is, “a monism in which there is a unitary being that is prior to and grounds all things that exist” (186). He argues…
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