Nature and Naturalism in Classical German Philosophy

This book explores the relevance of naturalism and theories of nature to Classical German Philosophy. It presents new readings on Kant, Jacobi, Goethe, the Romantic tradition, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Marx, which highlight the relevance of Classical German Philosophy’s considerations of nature and naturalism for contemporary concerns.

Luca Corti is Assistant Professor at the University of Padua as well as Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Padua, the University of Chicago, and the University Paris I Sorbonne. He has published two books and several articles on Kant, Hegel, and contemporary Hegelisms, as well as Sellars and Sellarsian themes, including Senses and Sensations: on Hegel’s Later Picture of Perceptual Experience (2018), Conceptualism, Non-Conceptualism, and the Method of Hegel’s Psychology (Routledge, 2016), Between Causes and Reasons: Hegel, Sellars and Lewis on Sensation (2019), and Crossing the Line: Sellars on Kant on Imagination (2012). He is co-editor of Sellars and the History of Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2018).

Johannes-Georg Schülein is ’Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter’ at the Department for Philosophy and the Research Center for Classical German Philosophy/Hegel Archive at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. He is the managing editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Hegel-Studien. Currently, he is working on his second book, which deals with Schelling’s theory of freedom between Kant and Hegel. Previously, he has published a monograph on the critique of metaphysics in Hegel and Derrida (2016) and several articles on Classical German Philosophy.