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The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism features essays from leading scholars on German philosophy. It is the most comprehensive secondary source available, covering not only the full range of work by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, but also idealists such as Reinhold and Schopenhauer, critics such as Jacobi, Maimon, and the German Romantics

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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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