Download or read book Schelling-Eschenmayer Controversy, 1801 written by Benjamin Berger and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A.C.A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.