The Absolute and the Concept of Difference: The Discourse between Schelling and Hegel 1794-1842

埃米·诺特初级研究小组的目标是，第一次，全面地，从一个具体的系统的角度，重建f·w·j·谢林和g·w·f·黑格尔之间跨越近五十年的争论。从历史的角度来看，该项目在其中心步骤中按时间顺序重建了两位思想家之间辩论的发展。因此，该项目试图表明，尽管两位思想家之间存在所有争论，但辩论实际上是一种富有成效和互惠的对话，这是一种复杂的挪用和保持距离的相互作用。从系统的角度来看，这场辩论被重构为“关于差异的争论”。在此过程中，在讨论过程中形成的各种差异概念（例如，从属于同一性的数量差异，内部关系-动态差异，外部互动性等）在差异的理想主义形式的类型学中进行了分析和讨论。迄今为止，该项目工作已按时间顺序分为五个步骤，依次重建谢林和黑格尔之间各自的互动以及在此过程中表达的差异概念。在这里要求的第六步中，将在此基础上追求两个新问题，这是项目工作中产生的理想问题，在整个对话的横向问题的意义上。a)一方面，谢林和黑格尔在（首先是）哲学史讲座中相互描述的时间顺序将被重建。有关“哲学史”讲座的著名和有影响力的文本版本是在两位思想家死后从他们的遗产中编辑出来的（作者是K.L. Michelet和K.F.A.谢林），其真实性值得怀疑。该项目将重建这些相互表现的更加不同的画面，主要基于学生的笔记（Nachschriften），也将探讨相互表现的变化。b)另一方面，要从“关于方法的争论”的角度来审视这场辩论。黑格尔死后，谢林公开指责他盗用了他（谢林）早期体系的方法，但同时又不恰当地改造了它。相反，在黑格尔的演讲中，我们发现谢林完全缺乏方法的指责。该项目将重建这一辩论所涉及的不同方法，并以比较的方式对其进行讨论。主要论点是，在方法问题上的分歧可以精确地解释基于差异的概念，这些概念是在项目的前几个步骤中重建的。

The aim of the Emmy Noether junior research group, for which an extension application is made, is to, for the first time, reconstruct the dispute between F.W.J. Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, spanning almost fifty years, comprehensively and from a specific systematic point of view. In an historical perspective, the project reconstructs the development of the debate between the two thinkers chronologically in its central steps. Thereby, the project tries to show that the debate, in spite of all the polemics between the two thinkers, is at bottom a productive and reciprocal dialogue, which takes place as a complex interplay of appropriation and taking distance. From a systematic perspective, the debate is reconstructed as a 'dispute about difference'. In doing so, the various conceptions of difference as developed in the course of the discussion (e.g. quantitative difference subordinate to identity, internal relational-dynamic difference, external alterity, etc.) are analyzed and discussed in a typology of idealistic forms of difference. The project work to date has been chronologically based on the progress of the dialogue in five steps, successively reconstructing the respective interactions between Schelling and Hegel as well as the conceptions of difference that are expressed in this process. In the sixth step requested here, two new questions are to be pursued based on this, which have arisen as desiderata from the project work, in the sense of transversal questions across the entire dialogue. a) On the one hand, the chronology of the mutual depictions of Schelling and Hegel in their lectures on (above all) the history of philosophy will be reconstructed. The well-known and influential text versions of the respective lectures on "History of Philosophy" were edited posthumously from the thinkers’ estate (by K.L. Michelet and by K.F.A. Schelling) and are of questionable authenticity. The project will reconstruct a much more differentiated picture of these mutual representations, mostly based on students’ notes (Nachschriften), also inquiring changes in the mutual presentations. b) On the other hand, the debate is to be examined with a view to a 'dispute about method'. After Hegel's death, Schelling publicly accuses him of having appropriated the method of his (Schelling's) earlier system, but at the same time improperly transformed it. Conversely, in Hegel's lectures, we find the accusation that Schelling was completely lacking a method. The project will reconstruct the different methodological approaches involved in this debate and discuss them, in a comparative manner. The main thesis is that the divergence in the question of method may precisely be explained based on the conceptions of difference that were reconstructed in the previous steps of the project.