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 Komurcu.- 5. Disorientation and Inferred Autonomy: Kant and Schelling on Torture, Global Contest, and Practical Messianism: