Eric Bolle
Earth is one great ruin: Introduction to Schelling’s Clara
Eric Bolle investigates the elements of Cherish and Destroy in Schelling's Clara. Schelling loved his wife, Caroline. Love is for Cherish. Soon after her death in 1809, Schelling wrote Clara as a way of mourning. Death is for Destroy. Schelling worked a couple of years on the text. Taking the floor are Clara as a bearer of intellectual intuition (intellektuelle Anschauung) and representative of the soul, the reverend as a representative of God and the mind, and the physician as a representative of nature and the body. Schelling presents philosophy as the merging of these three poles. Note that in this trialogue, the most important position is for the woman; she plays the major role, an exception in the history of philosophy.