Rethinking German Idealism

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).

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: .- 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