Preface Notes on Contributors Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations Introduction: What Is German Idealism?; Matthew C. Altman PART I: KANT 1. Kant's Career in German Idealism; Steve Naragon 2. Kant's Legacy for German Idealism: Versions of Autonomy; Paul Guyer 3. Kant's Three Transcendentals, Explanation, and the Hypothesis of Pure Apperception; Timothy Rosenkoetter 4. Moral Goodness and Human Equality in Kant's Ethical Theory; Lara Denis 5. Kant and the Possibility of Transcendental Freedom; Benjamin Vilhauer 6. Why Should We Cultivate Taste? Answers from Kant's Early and Late Aesthetic Theory; Brian Watkins 7. Transcendental Idealism as the Backdrop for Kant's Theory of Religion; Stephen R. Palmquist 8. Kant's Political Philosophy; Allen Wood 9. Kant's Anthropology and Its Method: The Epistemic Uses of Teleology in the Natural World and Beyond; Alix Cohen PART II: REACTIONS TO KANT 10. Jacobi on Kant, or Moral Naturalism vs. Idealism; Benjamin D. Crowe 11. Rationalism, Empiricism,and Skepticism: The Curious Case of Maimon's 'Coalition-System'; Peter Thielke 12. Reinhold and the Transformation of Philosophy into a Science; Kien-how Goh PART III: FICHTE 13. Fichte: His Life and Philosophical Calling; Marina F. Bykova 14. A Philosophy of Freedom: Fichte's Philosophical Achievement; Günter Zöller 15. Fichte's Methodology in the Wissenschaftslehre (1794-95); Frederick Neuhouser 16. Fichte's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense; Matthew C. Altman 17. How 'Natural' Is Fichte's Theory of Natural Right?; David James 18. Transcendental Idealism and Theistic Commitment in Fichte; Steven Hoeltzel PART IV: GERMAN ROMANTICISM 19. The Aesthetic Philosophy of Early German Romanticism and Its Early German Idealist Roots; Elizabeth Millán 20. From the Metaphysics of the Beautiful to the Metaphysics of the True: Hölderlin's Philosophy in the Horizon of Poetry; Violetta L. Waibel, translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner PART V: SCHELLING 21. Schelling: A Brief Biographical Sketch of the Odysseus of German Idealism; Bruce Matthews 22. Nature of Imagination: At the Heart of Schelling's Thinking; Jason M. Wirth 23. The Hypothesis of Nature's Logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie ; Iain Hamilton Grant 24. Religion beyond the Limits of Criticism; Michael Vater 25. The 'Keystone' of the System: Schelling's Philosophy of Art; Devin Zane Shaw PART VI: HEGEL 26. Hegel Life, History, System; Andreja Novakovic 27. Hegel's Philosophical Achievement; Terry Pinkard 28. Plato, Descartes, Hegel: Three Philosophers of Event; Slavoj i ek 29. Hegel's Geist Immodestly Metaphysical!; J. M. Fritzman and Kristin Parvizian 30. Narration, Bildung , and the Work of Mourning in Hegel's Philosophy of History; Cynthia D. Coe 31. Our All-Too-Human Hegelian Agency; Sally Sedgwick 32. Kant's Critical Legacy: Fichte's Constructionism and Hegel's Discursive Logic; George di Giovanni 33. Hegel on Art and Aesthetics; Allen Speight 34. The Scandal of Hegel's Political Philosophy; William F. Bristow PART VII: ALTERNATIVE TRADITIONS IN GERMAN IDEALISM 35. Schopenhauer's Transcendental Idealism and the Neutral Nature of Will; Robert Wicks 36. Two Traditions of Idealism; Frederick C. Beiser Conclusion: The Legacies of German Idealism; Matthew C. Altman
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