Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the coeditor (with Arleen Salles) of The Role of History in Latin American Philosophy: Contemporary Perspectives and the translator of Manfred Frank's The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism, both also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Philosophy and Early German Romanticism
The Literary Dimensions of Early German Romanticism
Defining Romanticism
Schlegel's Antifoundationalism
Overview

1. Finding Room for the Romantics between Kant and Hegel

Idealism: From Misconceptions to Post-Kantian Variations
Searching for the Unity of Thought and Being: Idealist Jäger versus Romantic Spürhunde
Frank's Romantic Realists versus Beiser's Romantic Idealists
On Why Schlegel Is Not Hegel
Romantic Skepticism

2. Searching for the Grounds of Knowledge

Jacobi's Salto Mortale
Schlegel's Reaction to the Salto
Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie
Aenesidemus and the Shift from Principle to Fact of Consciousness
Fichte's Move from Fact to Act of Consciousness

3. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: A Tendency to Be Avoided?

The Foundations of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre
The Clash between Schmid and Fichte
Fichte and Schlegel on Critical Philosophy
Fichte's Mystical Errors
The Spirit versus the Letter of Fichte's Philosophy

4. Niethammer's Influence on the Development of Schlegel's Skepticism

Niethammer's Skepticism
Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense
Schlegel's Philosophical Debut
Schlegel's Critique of Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense
Schlegel's Historical Taxonomy

5. Critique as Metaphilosophy: Kant as Half Critic

Revolution, Scientific Method, and Kant's Critical Project
Critiquing the Critical Philosopher
Away from Kant: Schlegel's Historical Turn

6. Philosophy in Media Res

The Wechselerweis and the Search for Truth
Philosophy "in the Middle":Between Fichte and Spinoza
Destroying the Illusion of the Finite: Schlegel's Critique of the Thing
Wilhelm Meister: Schlegel's Model of Coherence

7. The Aesthetic Consequences of Antifoundationalism

The Modern Spirit of Romanticism
Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Irony
Irony and the Necessity of Poetry

Notes
Bibliography
Index