Contents
Introduction
I. Kant’s Critique of Idealism
Introduction: Kant and the Problem of Subjectivism
1. Idealism in the Precritical Years
2. Transcendental Idealism and Empirical Realism
3. The First Edition Refutation of Skeptical Idealism
4. The First Edition Refutation of Dogmatic Idealism
5. Kant and Berkeley
6. The Second Edition Refutation of Problematic Idealism
7. Kant and the Way of Ideas
9. The Status of the Transcendental
8. The Transcendental Subject
10. Kant’s Idealism in the Opus postumum
II. Fichte’s Critique of Subjectivism
Introduction: The Interpretation of Fichte’s Idealism
1. Fichte and the Subjectivist Tradition
2. The Battle against Skepticism
3. Criticism versus Dogmatism
4. Freedom and Subjectivity
5. Knowledge of Freedom
6. Critical Idealism
7. The Refutation of Idealism
8. The Structure of Intersubjectivity
III. Absolute Idealism
1. Absolute Idealism: General Introduction
2. Hölderlin and Absolute Idealism
3. Novalis’ Magical Idealism
4. Friedrich Schlegel’s Absolute Idealism
IV. Schelling and Absolute Idealism
Introduction: The Troublesome Schellingian Legacy
1. The Path toward Absolute Idealism
2. The Development of Naturphilosophie
3. Schelling’s Break with Fichte
4. Problems, Methods, and Concepts of Naturphilosophie
5. Theory of Life and Matter
6. Schelling’s Absolute Idealism
7. The Dark Night of the Absolute
8. Absolute Knowledge
Notes
Bibliography
Index