Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I. Liberalism
6. 1. GERMAN LIBERALISM IN THE 1790S 13
7. 2. THE POLITICS OF KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY 27
8. 3. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS IN J. G. FICHTE’S 1794 WISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE 57
9. 4. THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER, 1781–1800 84
10. 5. THE EARLY POLITICAL THEORY OF WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT 111
11. 6. THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF F. H. JACOBI 138
12. 7. GEORG FORSTER, THE GERMAN JACOBIN 154
13. PART II. Herder and Early German Romanticism
14. 8. THE POLITICAL THEORY OF J. G. HERDER 189
15. 9. EARLY ROMANTIC POLITICAL THEORY 222
16. 10. THE EARLY POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL 245
17. 11. THE POLITICAL THEORY OF NOVALIS 264
18. PART III. Conservatism
19. 12. THE RISE OF GERMAN CONSERVATISM 281
20. 13. THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF C. M. WIELAND 335
21. CONCLUSION 363
22. NOTES 367
23. INDEX 429