Rethinking German Idealism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: What Remains of German Idealism?

   • Joseph Carew, S. J. McGrath

   Pages 1-19

3. Kant’s Philosophy of Projection: The Camera Obscura of the Inaugural Dissertation

   • Constantin Rauer

   Pages 21-50

4. The Meaning of Transcendental Idealism in the Work of F.W.J. Schelling

   • Alexander Schnell

   Pages 51-76

5. ‘Animals, Those Incessant Somnambulists’: A Critique of Schelling’s Anthropocentrism

   • Devin Zane Shaw

   Pages 77-97

6. The Non-existence of the Absolute: Schelling’s Treatise On Human Freedom

   • Cem Kömürcü

   Pages 99-120

7. Disorientation and Inferred Autonomy: Kant and Schelling on Torture, Global Contest, and Practical Messianism

   • F. Scott Scribner

   Pages 121-135

8. The Beech and the Palm Tree: Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre as a Project of Decolonization

   • Jean-Christophe Goddard

   Pages 137-161

9. Hegel on the Universe of Meaning: Logic, Language, and Spirit’s Break from Nature

   • Joseph Carew

   Pages 163-189

10. Lack and the Spurious Infinite: Towards a New Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature

    • Wes Furlotte

    Pages 191-214

11. Absolutely Contingent: Slavoj Žižek and the Hegelian Contingency of Necessity

    • Adrian Johnston

    Pages 215-245

12. On the Difference Between Schelling and Hegel

    • S. J. McGrath

    Pages 247-270

13. And Hence Everything Is Dionysus: Schelling and the Cabiri in Berlin

    • Jason M. Wirth

    Pages 271-291

14. Beyond Modernity: The Lasting Challenge of German Idealism

    • Konrad Utz

    Pages 293-317

15. Back Matter

    Pages 319-352

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The ‘death’ of German Idealism has been decried innumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19^th-century critique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, or analytic philosophy. Yet in the face of two hundred years of sustained, extremely rigorous attempts to leave behind its legacy, German Idealism has resisted its philosophical death sentence. For this exact reason it is timely ask: What remains of German Idealism? In what ways does its fundamental concepts and texts still speak to us? 

Drawing together new and established voices from scholars in Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, this volume offers a fresh look on this time-honoured tradition. It uses myriad of recently developed conceptual tools to present new and challenging theories of its now canonical figures.

• German Idealism
• Kant
• Fichte
• Hegel
• Schelling
• Metaphysics
• nature
• art
• language
• transcendental philosoph
• religion
• globalization
• decoloniality
• technology

• DEPT OF PHILOSOPHY, MEMORIAL UNIV OF NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada

  S.J. McGrath

• McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  Joseph Carew

Joseph Carew is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at McGill University and an emerging figure in German Idealist studies. He is the author of Ontological Catastrophe: Zizek and the Paradoxical Metaphysics of German Idealism (Open Humanities Press, 2014).

S.J. McGrath is a Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. His most recent book is The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious (Routledge, 2012).

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