The 'death' of German Idealism has been decried innumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-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 to 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 at this time-honoured tradition. It uses a myriad of recently developed conceptual tools to present new and challenging theories of its now canonical figures.

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

*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: <F. Scott Scribner.- *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