The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism

Machine generated contents note: -- 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 Millan -- 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 Zizek -- 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 -- Index