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In developing this kind of rhetoric of absent presences, I would argue that Schelling's Naturphilosophie is responding to the Cartesian indifference to embodiment with a corporeal model that Drew Leder has recently called the "dys-appearing body" (69-99), that is, a body whose flickering presence is felt but not known.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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In German-speaking countries cosmology, as a rule, is known as Naturphilosophie, i.e. philosophy of nature.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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I think this symbolical language should be employed with great reserve, I know that point of view of the old "Naturphilosophie;" I have examined it without prejudice, but nothing seems to me more dissimilar than the vital action of the metamorphosis of a plant in order to form the calyx or the flower, and the successive formation of beds of conglomerate.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Strachey in the Standard Edition adds the marginal note here that, with "nature philosophy" or Naturphilosophie Freud is indicating the philosophy of Schelling.
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Naturphilosophie and "physiology" (in Green 102-3), rather than with a radicalized "physiogony" as I am doing here.
Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)' 2008
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Naturphilosophie, [15] or in the process of the will in 1813 producing "itself absolutely — that is, out of itself and from itself" (W2 137).
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Naturphilosophie through which philosophy had colonized Nature as a region of spirit.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Beginning with physiography (Green's name for natural history as the study of natura naturata), this scale proceeds to "physiology" or the study of the powers behind nature, the natura naturans that is the subject of German Naturphilosophie in the work of the early Schelling, Lorenz Oken and British thinkers such as John Hunter and John Abernethy.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Naturphilosophie took its cue from what Schelling took to be Kant's assertion that, while each part of an organism supported the whole, the only purpose of a living organism was itself.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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Müller's endorsement of experimental science was in pragmatic conflict with his commitment to Naturphilosophie, and in particular, to vitalism.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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