2024/08/23 by Giacomo Croci · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel #Philosophy, Science, and History #Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
paper · doi:10.33134/eeja.396
openalex publication_date 2024/08/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The article reassesses Schelling’s philosophy of art in the System of Transcendental Idealism, focusing on its practical philosophy and the concept of the artefact. Often unexplored, this perspective offers a new account of Schelling’s early aesthetics, linking aesthetic experience to historical becoming. The discussion begins with an analysis of Schelling’s theory of intentional action, followed by a reconstruction of his understanding of artefact. It argues that Schelling integrates both social and material dimensions into his concept of artefacts. The paper then examines Schelling’s comparison between artefacts in general and works of art, asserting that aesthetic experience in the context of the System exemplifies ‘hermeneutic obstinacy’. This characteristic, typical of works of art, correlates with the open nature of historical reality.