Rethinking German Idealism

JosephCarew is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at McGill University and an emergingfigure in German Idealist studies. He is the author of Ontological Catastrophe: Zizek and the Paradoxical Metaphysicsof German Idealism (Open HumanitiesPress, 2014).S.J. McGrath is a Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University ofNewfoundland. He is an internationally recognized specialist in the philosophyof religion and the history of philosophy. His most recent book is The DarkGround 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: TheCamera Obscura of the Inaugural Dissertation of 1770: Constantin Rauer (translated by MichaelKolodziej).- 2.      The Meaning of TranscendentalIdealism in the Work of F. W. J. Schelling: Alexander Schnell (translated by Heidi A.Samuelson).- 3.       ‘Animals, Those Incessant Somnambulists’: ACritique 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 andSchelling on Torture, Global Contest, and Practical Messianism: .- 6.      The Beech and the Palm Tree: Fichte’sWissenschaftslehre as a Project ofDecolonization: Jean-Christophe Goddard (translated byKyla Bruff).- 7.      Hegel on the Universe of Meaning: Logic,Language, and Spirit’s Break from Nature: Joseph Carew.- 8.      Lack and the Spurious Infinite: Towardsa New Reading of Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: Wes Furlotte.- 9.      Absolutely Contingent: SlavojZizek and the Hegelian Contingency of Necessity: Adrian Johnston.- 10.  On the Difference Between Schellingand Hegel: S. J. McGrath.- 11.  And Hence Everything is Dionysus:Schelling and the Cabiri in Berlin: Jason M. Wirth.- 12.  Beyond Modernity: The LastingChallenge of German Idealism: Konrad Utz.- Bibliography.- Index