Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Goethe’s (Anti-)Classicism and Experientialism
6. Embracing the Enemy: The Problem of Religion in Goethe’s “Confessions of a Beautiful Soul” 13
7. “Meine Schwester Natalie ist hiervon ein lebhaftes Beispiel:” Bildung and Gender in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre 27
8. Mediating Subjectivities: Anti-Classical and Anti-Ideal Impulses in Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre and Die Wahlverwandtschaften 49
9. Reading Surfaces: Goethe and Benjamin 69
10. Kant-Critique and the Romanticist Movement
11. Jakob Friedrich Fries as an Opponent of German Idealism 87
12. Apparent Purposes. How Does the Purpose of Purposelessness Operate? 103
13. Antecedents to Hegel’s Conception of Judaism in Kant’s Practical Philosophy 115
14. “Diese Unwissenheit ist mir der unerträglichste Mangel, der gröste Widerspruch”: The Search for Pre-rational Knowledge in Karoline von Günderrode 131
15. Romantic Anti-Idealism and Re-evaluations of Gender: Schlegel, Günderrode and Literary Gender Politics 147
16. The Polymorphous Political Theology of Novalis and Marcuse 161
17. Hölderlin and Nietzsche: The Ecological Complication of Idealist Aesthetics
18. Hölderlin’s Poetics of Zärtlichkeit: The Corporeal Turn of Transcendental Idealism 175
19. Grund/Abgrund. On Kant and Hölderlin 187
20. Nietzsche and Cognitive Ecology 209
21. Overturning Philosophy: Classic and (Anti)-Classic Considerations on Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo 227
22. Index 243