Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Philosophy and Early German Romanticism
The Literary Dimensions of Early German Romanticism
Defining Romanticism
Schlegel's Antifoundationalism
Overview
1. Finding Room for the Romantics between Kant and Hegel
Idealism: From Misconceptions to Post-Kantian Variations
Searching for the Unity of Thought and Being: Idealist Jäger versus Romantic Spürhunde
Frank's Romantic Realists versus Beiser's Romantic Idealists
On Why Schlegel Is Not Hegel
Romantic Skepticism
2. Searching for the Grounds of Knowledge
Jacobi's Salto Mortale
Schlegel's Reaction to the Salto
Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie
Aenesidemus and the Shift from Principle to Fact of Consciousness
Fichte's Move from Fact to Act of Consciousness
3. Fichte's
Wissenschaftslehre: A Tendency to Be Avoided?
The Foundations of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
The Clash between Schmid and Fichte
Fichte and Schlegel on Critical Philosophy
Fichte's Mystical Errors
The Spirit versus the Letter of Fichte's Philosophy
4. Niethammer's Influence on the Development of Schlegel's Skepticism
Niethammer's Skepticism
Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense
Schlegel's Philosophical Debut
Schlegel's Critique of Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense
Schlegel's Historical Taxonomy
5. Critique as Metaphilosophy: Kant as Half Critic
Revolution, Scientific Method, and Kant's Critical Project
Critiquing the Critical Philosopher
Away from Kant: Schlegel's Historical Turn
6. Philosophy in Media Res
The Wechselerweis and the Search for Truth
Philosophy "in the Middle":Between Fichte and Spinoza
Destroying the Illusion of the Finite: Schlegel's Critique of the Thing
Wilhelm Meister: Schlegel's Model of Coherence
7. The Aesthetic Consequences of Antifoundationalism
The Modern Spirit of Romanticism
Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Irony
Irony and the Necessity of Poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Index