Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Romanticism and the Invention of Literature 15
6. Allegories of Symbol: On Hegel’s Aesthetics 39
7. Toward a Cultural Idealism: Negativity and Freedom in Hegel and Kant 51
8. Mediality in Hegel: From Work to Text in the Phenomenology of Spirit 73
9. Beyond Beginnings: Schlegel and Romantic Historiography 93
10. Curvatures: Hegel and the Baroque 113
11. Three Ends of the Absolute:, Schelling, Hölderlin, Novalis 135
12. Schopenhauer’s Telling Body of Philosophy 161
13. Sacrificial and Erotic Materialism in Kierkegaard and Adorno 181
14. Absolute Failures: Hegel’s Bildung and the “Earliest System-Program of German Idealism” 203
15. Futures of Spirit: Hegel, Nietzsche, and Beyond 219
16. Conclusion: Without Absolutes 241
17. Contributors 253
18. Index 257