Schelling's political thought

Jurgen Habermas did notice that "Schelling is no political thinker." It is a fact that Schelling did not publish any important and systematic work on politics, which could be compared with Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechtes or Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts. We do here the suppositi on that Schelling's disinterest for politics has something to do with his v ery early negative interpretation of law and state as institutions of limit ation and constraint. Schelling did maintain this up to his late philosophi e which considered the constantly growing constraint of State in history as a means for humanity to expiate the original sin. In only one period can w e find by Schelling a valorization of politics: during the period of Identi ty(1801-1806), Schelling thought expressly an identity between philosophie and politeuein. Seeing that these years are those of the closest collaborat ion between Hegel and Schelling, so we can state Hegel's political influenc e on Schelling, in return of Schelling's well known metaphysical influence on Hegel.