The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism

Preface
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgement
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1: Introduction: Questions of Identity and Difference in the Traditions of German Idealism and Existentialism
	1	 Previous Works on German Idealism and Existentialism
		1.1	 General Studies
		1.2	 Studies on the Relation of the German Idealists to Existentialism
		1.3	 Studies on the Relation of the Existentialists to German Idealism
	2	 The Organization of the Present Volume
	3	 The Present Collection
		3.1	 Part I: German Idealism
		3.2	 Part II: Existentialism
	4	 The Nature of the History of Ideas
	Bibliography
Part I: Anticipations of Existentialism in the German Idealists
	2: The Stumbling Block of Existence in F. H. Jacobi
		1	 The Distinctiveness of Metaphysics: Methodology
		2	 The Certainty of Existence
		3	 The Problem of Freedom
		4	 Concluding Remarks
		Bibliography
	3: Kant and Existentialism: Inescapable Freedom and Self-Deception
		1	 Human Subjectivity and Finitude
		2	 Human Freedom and the Central Philosophical Issue
		3	 Inescapable Freedom: The Incorporation Thesis
		4	 Autonomy and Meta-Ethics
		5	 Freedom, Anxiety, Self-Deception and Moral Evil
		6	 Choosing Oneself: The Moral Conversion
		7	 Philosophical Anthropology as a New Discipline
		8	 Philosophy of Religion as a New Discipline
		9	 Overcoming Despair: Moral Faith and Hope
		10	 Anti-Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God
		11	 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	4: Fichte and Existentialism: Freedom and Finitude, Self-Positing and Striving
		1	 Theory of Science as a Philosophy of Striving
		2	 I-Hood as Self-Conscious Self-Actualization
		3	 I-Hood as Uncharted Territory
		4	 Self-Positing and Felt Finitude (Freedom and Facticity)
		5	 “Without a striving, no object at all is possible”
		6	 Acting (Handeln), Being (Sein), and Philosophical Knowing
		7	 I-Hood (Ichheit), Individuality, and Divinity (Gottheit)
		Bibliography
	5: Schelling as a Transitional Figure from Idealism to Existentialism
		1	 The Turn in Schelling’s Philosophy
		2	 Schelling’s Late Philosophy
		3	 The Two Kinds of Knowledge
		4	 Schelling’s Berlin Lectures
		5	 Kierkegaard’s Notes
		6	 Conclusions
		Bibliography
	6: “Return to Intervention in the Life of Human Beings”: Existentialist Themes in the Development of Hegel’s Social and Political Philosophy
		1	 Existentialism and the Young Hegel
		2	 The Phenomenology of Spirit and Existentialist Elements in the Shaping of Hegel’s Notion of Experience
		3	 The Systematic Hegel and the Challenge to Existentialist Views of Agency, Responsibility, Conscience and History
		Bibliography
	7: The Existentialist Basis of Schopenhauer’s Pessimism
		1	 The World as Will
		2	 Schopenhauer’s Theory of Desire as a Lack
		3	 Schopenhauer’s Existentialist Attitude Towards the Spatio-Temporal World
		Bibliography
	8: An Early Ally of Existentialism? Trendelenburg’s Logical Investigations in the Mirror of Kierkegaard’s Literary Project
		1	 A Methodological Problem
		2	 Kierkegaard’s “Existentialist” Reception of Trendelenburg as a Solution to the Problem
		3	 Trendelenburg, A Proto-Existentialist?
		4	 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part II: The Existentialists’ Use of the German Idealists
	9: Kierkegaard: A Transitional Figure from German Idealism to Existentialism
		1	 Kierkegaard and the Individual German Idealists
			1.1	 Kant
			1.2	 Fichte
			1.3	 Schelling
			1.4	 Hegel
			1.5	 Schopenhauer
			1.6	 Trendelenburg
		2	 Idealism in Kierkegaard’s Thought
		Bibliography
	10: “The Honeymoon of German Philosophy”: Nietzsche and German Idealism
		1	 Nietzsche’s Influences
		2	 The Prejudices of Kantian Philosophy
		3	 Virtus Dormitiva
		4	 Kant and/as the Ascetic Priest
		5	 The Décadence of “German Philosophy”
		6	 The History of an Error
		7	 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	11: Buber and German Idealism: Between Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Religion
		1	 Fichte and the Double Wave of German and Jewish Nationalism
		2	 Buber’s Early Encounters with Kant
		3	 The Critique of Kant’s Subordination of Religion to Ethics in Religion als Gegenwart
		4	 Kant and the Role of the Social Thinker
		5	 Kant’s Role in the History of Philosophical Anthropology
		6	 Kant’s and Cohen’s Ambiguous Concepts of God
		7	 Hegel’s Problematic Abstractions in Anthropology and Philosophy of Religion
		8	 Hegel’s Absolutization of the State
		9	 More than Just Opposition: The Complex Nature of Buber’s Reception
		Bibliography
	12: Historicism, Neo-Idealism, and Modern Theology: Paul Tillich and German Idealism
		1	 Theology and Neo-Idealism Around 1900
		2	 The Fichte of Halle, or Theology in the Spirit of the Wissenschaftslehre
		3	 Formal and Material Freedom
		4	 Tillich’s Interpretation of the Absoluteness of Christianity in His Dissertations on Schelling’s Philosophy
		5	 Tillich and the Heritage of German Idealism
		Bibliography
	13: “The Last Kantian”: Outlines of Karl Jaspers’s Ambivalent Reception of German Idealism
		1	 Rolling Away the Stone from Kant’s Tomb
			1.1	 Underway to Kant: From the Beginnings to the Doctrine of Ideas
			1.2	 Kant on Jaspers’s Philosophical Path
			1.3	 Kant as a “Great Philosopher”
		2	 Turning Away from Kant: The Speculative “Magic” of German Idealism
		3	 Jaspers on the Thinkers of German Idealism
			3.1	 Fichte: A “Titan of Thinking” and a “Caricature of Kant”
			3.2	 Schelling: Greatness and Fate
			3.3	 Hegel: A Great Shaper of System
		4	 Conclusions: Between Critical Appropriation and Consequent Polemics
		Bibliography
	14: Beyond the Critique of Judgment: Arendt and German Idealism
		1	 Arendt’s Critique of German Idealism
		2	 Arendt and the Critique of Judgment
		3	 Arendt’s Use of Kant’s Critique of Judgment
		4	 Concluding Remarks
		Bibliography
	15: Heidegger and Kant, or Heidegger’s Poetic Idealism of Imagination
		1	 Through Kant Away from Kant
		2	 First Phase: Heidegger’s Appropriative Transformation of Kant
		3	 Realism or Idealism in Being and Time?
		4	 Heidegger’s Poietic Idealism of Imagination
		5	 Second Phase: Heidegger’s Critique of Freedom and Objectivity in Kant
		6	 Third Phase: Rupture with Kant—Another Poetic Idealism?
		7	 Conclusions
		Bibliography
	16: Heidegger and German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel): Subjectivity and Finitude
		1	 Heidegger and Schelling
			1.1	 1927–1928: Heidegger’s First Seminar on Schelling
			1.2	 1936: Heidegger’s Main Lecture on Schelling’s Freedom Treatise
			1.3	 1941: Heidegger’s Last Seminar and Lecture on Schelling
			1.4	 Remarks and Notes on Schelling’s Late Philosophy
		2	 Heidegger and Hegel
			2.1	 1918–1930: Concept and Life
			2.2	 1930–1942: Concept and Negativity
			2.3	 1956–1964: Concept and Being
		3	 Heidegger and Fichte
		4	 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	17: Jacques Maritain: A Thomist Encounters Existentialism
		1	 Maritain’s Reputation as an Existentialist
		2	 Maritain’s Appreciation and Critique of the Secular Existentialists on Being and Existence
		3	 Maritain’s Appreciation and Critique of the Secular Existentialists on Ethics and Agency
		4	 Maritain’s Appreciation and Critique of the Secular Existentialists on Human Pathos
		5	 Maritain’s Appreciation and Critique of the Christian Existentialists
		6	 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	18: The Ethics of Resistance: Camus’s Encounter with German Idealism
		1	 Sources of Camus’s Knowledge of German Idealism
		2	 The Historical Context of Camus’s Encounter with German Idealism
		3	 Camus’s Critique of Hegel in The Rebel
		4	 Hegel’s Influence on Camus’s Ethics of Resistance
		5	 Conclusions
		Bibliography
	19: Merleau-Ponty and Hegel: Meaning and Its Expression in History
		1	 Merleau-Ponty and the Legacy of Hegel’s Philosophy of History
		2	 Hegel and the “Idealist” Philosophy of History
		3	 Lived Experience and Immanent Dialectics in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
		4	 Heroic Action, Inaugural Events, and First-Order Expression
		Bibliography
	20: Hegel and Sartre: The Search for Totality
		1	 The Unhappy Hegelian
		2	 Hegel and Totality
		3	 The Unhappy Consciousness in Sartre
		4	 Self, Others and Humanity in Being and Nothingness
		5	 Praxis and Totalization
		6	 Concluding Unscientific Postscript
		Bibliography
	21: Women, Jews, and Other Others: The Influence of Hegel on Beauvoir and Levinas
		1	 Woman as Other
		2	 Recognition and Jewish Identity
		Bibliography
	22: Conclusion: Anticipations and Influences
Author Index
Subject Index