Libertà e spazio nel confronto dell'ultimo Schelling con l'Estetica trascendentale di Kant

In his later philosophy of nature, developed in a Berlin lecture fragment from 1843/44 titled Presentation of the Natural Process, Schelling critically engages with Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic of the Critique of Pure Reason, focusing particularly on his theory of space. In this context, Schelling defines space as “vastness and free- dom”. This definition leads to a radical departure from Kant’s conception of space. Rather than serving merely as the pure a priori form of our subjective intuition, as it does for Kant, Schelling intends space as the form of the very existence of what trans- cends our subjective representations. This paper investigates the foundations of the late Schelling’s revision of Kant’s theory of space, showing how this revision is in- tended to lay the groundwork for a renewed metaphysical conception of space that remains consistent with the premises of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.