THEORETICAL-TEXTOLOGICAL WORKSHOP SCHELLING AND PHENOMENOLOGY (24 June 2015, St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy)

This publication is a transcript of the first meeting of the theoretical-textological workshop dedicated to the possibilities of the comparison of Schelling's idealism (as a kind of German idealism after Kant) and the phenomenological movement. It was held on June 24, 2015 at the Institute of Philosophy at St. Petersburg State University. To begin, the moderators of the workshop marked out several fields of future investigations. On the one hand, it could be the use of Schelling's transcendental theory of subjectivity in the framework of its phenomenological theory. One ought to mention the following main notions of Schelling's transcendental philosophy, which could be reinterpreted in the context of the phenomenological doctrine of the subjectivity: intellectual intuition (in connection with the phenomenological concept of intuition of essence), concept of teleology of subjectivity, concepts of transcendental history as well as transcendental past. On the other hand, Schelling's concepts of fact and facticity, immemorial being, existence, ecstasy, project could be of current relevance in building today's phenomenological theories of the world, even of a possible phenomenological theology. As a starting point for the workshop the modern Austrian researcher Wolfgang Fasching article Transzendentale und ästhetische Anschauung. Zur Selbstanschauung der konstituierenden Subjektivität bei Husserl und Schelling (Fasching, 2002) was chosen. During the discussion, the following topics and questions were examined: the problem of the similarity of Schelling's concept of the aesthetic intuition and Husserl's method of epoche, the peculiarity of the aesthetic conception by Schelling, and possibility of the aesthetic contemplation by Husserl, the legality of Fasching's interpretation of Husserl's notion of “epoche” as an aesthetic act, and the role of self-contemplation for the subject structure.