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German Idealism
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Reading Hölderlin
The diversity of poststructuralist appropriations of Hölderlin—considered in relation with and as an alternative to the dominant speculative paradigms of German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel)—provides a c...
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Enlightenment and Revolution
This chapter examines Kant’s role in Foucault’s views on revolution and Foucault’s adoption of the Enlightenment attitude of criticism toward the present. Both thinkers are critical of revolutionary ideals and...
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Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present, and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation
This concluding chapter to the handbook contains the editors’ reflections on the state of the relationship between theory and German Idealism by way of a narrative from the founding of “French theory” in the 1...
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‘Individuality’ in Hegel’s Aesthetics (II)
This chapter returns to Hegel’s conception of art, taking up several controversial aspects, still misconstrued. I discuss a passage in Hotho’s edition concerning the “thousand-eyed Argus,” asking how it affect...
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Reading Hegel II: Politics and History
This chapter discusses the criticism of Hegel by poststructuralist authors like Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Hegel revival in the early years of the Ljubljana-based...
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Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism Before 1833
This study takes as its starting point ’s -sounding claim in his 1828 lectures that the history of philosophy is identical to philosophy itself—and it does so in order to interrogate the various resemblances...
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Reading Schopenhauer
This chapter examines the writing of Arthur Schopenhauer as an exploration of the discontents of German idealism. Anticipating a poststructuralist concern with thought as the undoing of system, meaning, and th...
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Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson’s Spiral and Schelling’s Vortex
This study addresses the conceptual affinities between F. W. J. Schelling and Félix by focusing on the genesis of the link between nature and thought in their respective philosophies. To achieve this, it con...
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The Reception of German Philosophy in the Mind of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
In opposition to ’s polemical criticism of ’s abuse of Hegelian thought, this study shows—on the basis of a number of unpublished manuscript sources—how the different ways in which ’s preoccupation with cer...
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Nothingness, Negativity, and Buddhism in Schopenhauer
In this chapter, I reexamine how the interpretation of nothingness and negativity in Schopenhauer—within the wider nineteenth-century philosophical context, particularly in reference to his perceived rival Heg...
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Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta
This paper takes a fresh look at Kant’s transcendental idealism with a new reading of negative noumena as abstract entities. It shows that the three criteria for abstractness, i.e., non-spatiotemporality, caus...
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Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and Its Reception
Between 1840 and 1851 published a four-volume translation of Hegel’s Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik entitled Cours d’esthétique, which he supplemented with a detailed commentary in 1852. In this study, I explore...
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The Emptiness of Being: Schelling and Nishitani on the Problem of Absolute Negation
Schelling and Nishitani both confront the problem of absolute negation in post-Kantian philosophy and drive it beyond its eventual development into existentialism. This essay seeks not so much to sort out all ...
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Nothing Really Matters: Can Kant’s Table of Nothing Secure Metaphysics as Queen of the Sciences?
At what is arguably the most significant turning point in the Critique of Pure Reason, where Immanuel Kant has just completed his exploration of the safe ground of possible experience and is about to embark on th...
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Positivity and Time in Schelling’s Philosophical Development
Though Schelling makes the distinction between positive and negative philosophy in the later period, and starts to develop his positive philosophy mainly in his philosophy of religion (ca. 1840), this paper wi...
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The Relation between Reality and Negation in Kant, Maimon, and Fichte
The aim of this paper is to show that the binary notions of reality and negation play an important role in the philosophical agenda of Kant, Maimon and Fichte. The paper has three sections. The first section i...
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The Emergence of the Unprethinkable: On Schelling’s Methodology in 1821 and His Early Critique of Hegel
Long before the famous notion of “unprethinkable being” is vastly used in Schelling’s later works, it is forged within his Weltalter project during the second decade of the nineteenth century. The first products ...
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Hegel’s “Negation Driven to the Limit” – Reality and Ideality of Finitude [Anne Becker; Translator: Niels Feuerhahn]
This paper will focus, first of all, on becoming and the problematic unity that results from it. We will begin with the question of how Hegel determines the existent foundation [daseiende Grundlage] of the Scienc...
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Infinite Judgments: The Non-Being of the Idea [Anna Longo; Translator: Martijn Buijs]
Infinite judgments have been known since antiquity, yet they have been forgotten since the establishment of modern logic. Infinite judgements are meant to address non-being not as a negation of being but as th...
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Systems of Knowledge
This chapter considers Idealism’s encyclopedic knowledge-systems as a “general economy” that deconstructs any panlogical unification of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and the natural sciences, thus yielding ...
