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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.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors.- Introduction:
What Remains of German Idealism?: Joseph Carew and S. J. McGrath .- 1. Kant's Philosophy of Projection: The
Camera Obscura of the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770: Constantin Rauer (translated by Michael
Kolodziej) .- 2. The Meaning of Transcendental
Idealism in the Work of F. W. J. Schelling: Alexander Schnell (translated by Heidi A.
Samuelson) .- 3. 'Animals, Those Incessant Somnambulists': A
Critique of Schelling's Anthropocentrism: Devin Zane Shaw .- 4. The Non-Existence of the Absolute:
Schelling's Treatise On Human Freedom: Cem Kömürcü .- 5.
Disorientation and Inferred Autonomy: Kant and
Schelling on Torture, Global Contest, and Practical Messianism: .- 6. The Beech and the Palm Tree: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre as a Project of
Decolonization: Jean-Christophe Goddard (translated by
Kyla Bruff) .- 7. Hegel on the Universe of Meaning: Logic,
Language, and Spirit's Break from Nature: Joseph Carew .- 8. Lack and the Spurious Infinite: Towards
a New Reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Wes Furlotte .- 9. Absolutely Contingent: Slavoj
Zizek and the Hegelian Contingency of Necessity: Adrian Johnston .- 10. On the Difference Between Schelling
and Hegel: S. J. McGrath .- 11. And Hence Everything is Dionysus:
Schelling and the Cabiri in Berlin: Jason M. Wirth .- 12. Beyond Modernity: The Lasting
Challenge of German Idealism: Konrad Utz .- Bibliography .- Index
About the author
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).
