Tilottama Rajan is Canada Research Chair in English and Theory at the University of Western Ontario. She has published several books, including the coedited volume (with David L. Clark), Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, published by SUNY Press. Arkady Plotnitsky is Professor of English, a University Faculty Scholar, and Director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program at Purdue University. He has published several books, including, most recently, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought and the "Two Cultures."

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Tilottama Rajan

Romanticism and the Invention of Literature
Jan Plug

Allegories of Symbol: On Hegel's Aesthetics
Andrzej Warminski

Toward a Cultural Idealism: Negativity and Freedom in Hegel and Kant
Tilottama Rajan

Mediality in Hegel: From Work to Text in the Phenomenology of Spirit
Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Beyond Beginnings: Schlegel and Romantic Historiography
Gary Handwerk

Curvatures: Hegel and the Baroque
Arkady Plotnitsky

Three Ends of the Absolute: Schelling, Holderlin, and Novalis
David Farrell Krell

Schopenhauer's Telling Body of Philosophy
Joel Faflak

Sacrificial and Erotic Materialism in Kierkegaard and Adorno
John Smyth

Absolute Failures: Hegel's Bildung and the "Earliest System-Program of German Idealism"
Rebecca Gagan

Futures of Spirit: Hegel, Nietzsche, and Beyond
Richard Beardsworth

Conclusion: Without Absolutes
Arkady Plotnitsky

Contributors

Index