All Outputs (9)

On The World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings (2016)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2016). On The World Soul and Other Naturephilosophical Writings. New York: State University Press of New York. Manuscript submitted for publication

Contains new and complete translations of four of Schelling's major works on the Philosophy of nature, spanning 1798-1844. The volume contains a major introduction alongside thematic and orienting introductions to each of the four texts.

Die Natur der Natur (2016)
Book
Grant, I. H. (2016). E. Lindner (Ed.), Die Natur der Natur. Berlin: Merve

A collection of essays translated into German by Eckardt Lindner (Universitaet Wien) with two unpublished essays.

Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept. In C. Cox, J. Jaskey, & S. Malik (Eds.), Realism Materialism Art (231-242). Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press

Kasimir Malevich's philosophical writings draw not on Schopenhauer, as is usually argued, but on Schelling. Thus his theory of the additional element constitutes an ontological rather than an epistemological intervention which this essay develops.

Everything (2015)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2015). Everything. Monist, 98(2), 156-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onv003

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Hegeler Institute. All rights reserved. To picture reality either as not involving its being pictured or as reducible to its being pictured yields inconsistent pictures, since i... Read More about Everything.

Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature (2015)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2015). Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature. Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 19(1), 106-124. https://doi.org/10.5840/symposium20151919

In Schelling’s ‘On the Relation between the Real and the Ideal in Nature’ (1806), not only does the titular copula bond real and ideal, but is itself bonded in and by nature. If the copula doesn’t merely bond nature and judgment, but bonds the latter... Read More about Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature.

Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem. In S. Pfeffer (Ed.), Speculations on Anonymous Materials. Berlin: Merve

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field consists of an image, published in 2006 but shot between September 2003 and January 2004, of a tiny part of the Galaxy: the constellation of Fornax, which lies just below Orion in the night sky. The image was constructed b... Read More about Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem.

The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie (2014)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2014). The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie. In M. Altman (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (478-498). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Schelling’s Naturphilosophie is either considered one of several phases through which his philosophy passed or, as Schelling repeatedly states, it is “one side of philosophy” until at least 1830 and, since he wrote his last work on the subject in 184... Read More about The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie.

Il tre dogma di Trascendentalismo (2014)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2014). Il tre dogma di Trascendentalismo. Rivista di Estetica, 57(3), 241-250

In the early twenty-first century, philosophy stemming from the continental tradition has become overtly realist. This does not mean it abandons the sophisticated structures of reflection for a givenness on the refutation of which its earliest momen... Read More about Il tre dogma di Trascendentalismo.

The law of insuperable environment: What is exhibited in the exhibition of the process of nature? (2013)
Journal Article
Grant, I. H. (2013). The law of insuperable environment: What is exhibited in the exhibition of the process of nature?

Once something is said of something else, this “what it is that exists” or X of which what is said is said, is augmented, however minimally, by its expression. Due to the resulting progressive series, asking after what it is of which what is said is... Read More about The law of insuperable environment: What is exhibited in the exhibition of the process of nature?.