The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism

Jon Stewart is Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Founder and general editor of the multi-volume series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, he has authored eleven books including Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003) and Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity (2015), as well as over forty articles on German idealism and 19th century continental philosophy.

Part I: Anticipations of Existentialism in the German Idealists.- 1. The Stumbling Block of Existence in F. H. Jacobi; Paolo Livieri.- 2. Kant and Existentialism: Inescapable Freedom and Self-Deception; Roe Fremstedal.- 3. Fichte and Existentialism: Freedom and Finitude, Self-Positing and Striving; Steven Hoeltzel.- 4. Schelling as a Transitional Figure from Idealism to Existentialism; Zoltán Gyenge.- 5."Return to Intervention in the Life of Human Beings": Existentialist Themes in the Development of Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy; C. Allen Speight.- 6. The Existentialist Basis of Schopenhauer's Pessimism; Robert Wicks.- 7. An Early Ally of Existentialism? Trendelenburg's Logical Investigations in the Mirror of Kierkegaard's Literary Project; Heiko Schulz.- Part II: The Existentialists' Use of the German Idealists.- 8. Kierkegaard: A Transitional Figure from German Idealism to Existentialism; Jon Stewart.- 9. "The Honeymoon of German Philosophy": Nietzsche and German Idealism; Daniel Conway.- 10. Buber and German Idealism: Between Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Religion; Peter Sajda.- 11. Historicism, Neo-Idealism, and Modern Theology: Paul Tillich and German Idealism; Christian Danz.- 12. "The Last Kantian": Outlines of Karl Jaspers's Ambivalent Reception of German Idealism;  István Czakó.- 13. Beyond the Critique of Judgment: Arendt and German Idealism; Matthew Wester.- 14. Heidegger and Kant, or Heidegger's Poetic Idealism of Imagination; David Espinet.- 15. Heidegger and German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel): Subjectivity and Finitude; Sylvaine Gourdain and Lucian Ionel.- 16. Jacques Maritain: A Thomist Encounters Existentialism; Lee C. Barrett.- 17. The Ethics of Resistance: Camus's Encounter with German Idealism; Thomas P. Miles.- 18. Merleau-Ponty and Hegel: Meaning and its Expression in History; David Ciavatta.- 19. Hegel and Sartre: The Search for Totality; Bruce Baugh.- 20. Women, Jews, and Other Others: The Influence of Hegel on Beauvoir and Levinas; Claire Katz.