The most important prerequisite for overcoming alienated production and living conditions is the awareness of the unity of body and soul, of feeling and concept. Matthias Mayer's study not only highlights the relevance of Schelling's philosophy of nature for neo-Marxist theory formation, particularly in the work of Ernst Bloch, but also exposes its critical potential for analyzing and resolving reifying processes of the present, that is, the crisis of capitalism in its postmodern stage: the "Unconditional" of early Romanticism becomes the counterconcept to "reification.".