Schelling: Crisis and Critique

Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Schelling Society: NASS 5

21-25 February 2017

Mexico City
Schelling emphasizes the connection between the critical method and the
notion of crisis as separation, decision, and judgment. He realizes that crisis is
constitutive of the critical enterprise and of philosophy in general. It is perhaps
no coincidence that Schelling also recognized the profound crisis of the idealist
project that he had grounded and sought to find new philosophical approaches
that would respond to the crisis of rational science.
The aim of the conference is to think about the connection between crisis and
critique, both in philosophy and in a general sense. Papers that address these
notions in Schellings thought are welcome. Furthermore, Schellings thought
often defines itself through the critique of other philosophers and in contrast to
them, as characterizes the fabric of debates we now call German Idealism. This
is another suggested perspective for contributions. Papers that aim to bring
Schelling into contemporary discussions to show how Schelling's thought might
be relevant, both historically and systematically, are also encouraged. Papers
may be presented in English, Spanish or German. Selected papers will have 20
minutes presentation time at the conference.
Please submit an abstract of 800-1000 words by September 1st, 2016 to the
following email address: nass5mx@gmail.com
Presented abstracts must be suitable for anonymous review. They must not
contain any element that could reveal the authors identity. In a separate
document, please include the title of the paper, the presenters name, degrees
earned, institutional affiliation, and contact information.
Authors will be notified of the review outcome by October 1st, 2016.
We plan to publish some of the presented papers in a collected volume. We
therefore kindly request that you reserve your accepted paper for publication.
Final versions of selected papers will be requested by Sept 1st, 2017.
Information: Prof. Dr. Marcela Garca
Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico
nass5mx@gmail.com