Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy

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.

"…this book is a useful adjunct to the work of [Frederick] Beiser, [Andrew] Bowie and [Manfred] Frank." — Philosophy in Review"…Millán-Zaibert makes a significant and positive contribution to the growing list of contemporary scholarship in the area of early German romantic philosophy … [she] does an excellent job of engaging Schlegel's thought in the context of Kant, Spinoza, Fichte, Hegel, and other heavyweight philosophers." — Kinesis"…[an] important book." — CHOICE"Millán-Zaibert makes a convincing argument that Schlegel has a very sensible and relevant philosophical position, and that it has been generally misunderstood and underappreciated. I believe everyone working in the field will be indebted to this volume and will work with it regularly." — Karl Ameriks, coeditor of The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Philosophy and Early German RomanticismThe Literary Dimensions of Early German RomanticismDefining RomanticismSchlegel's AntifoundationalismOverview1. Finding Room for the Romantics between Kant and Hegel Idealism: From Misconceptions to Post-Kantian VariationsSearching for the Unity of Thought and Being: Idealist Jäger versus Romantic SpürhundeFrank's Romantic Realists versus Beiser's Romantic IdealistsOn Why Schlegel Is Not HegelRomantic Skepticism2. Searching for the Grounds of Knowledge Jacobi's Salto MortaleSchlegel's Reaction to the SaltoReinhold's ElementarphilosophieAenesidemus and the Shift from Principle to Fact of ConsciousnessFichte's Move from Fact to Act of Consciousness3. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: A Tendency to Be Avoided? The Foundations of Fichte's WissenschaftslehreThe Clash between Schmid and FichteFichte and Schlegel on Critical PhilosophyFichte's Mystical ErrorsThe Spirit versus the Letter of Fichte's Philosophy 4. Niethammer's Influence on the Development of Schlegel's Skepticism Niethammer's SkepticismNiethammer's Appeal to Common SenseSchlegel's Philosophical DebutSchlegel's Critique of Niethammer's Appeal to Common SenseSchlegel's Historical Taxonomy5. Critique as Metaphilosophy: Kant as Half Critic Revolution, Scientific Method, and Kant's Critical ProjectCritiquing the Critical PhilosopherAway from Kant: Schlegel's Historical Turn6. Philosophy in Media Res The Wechselerweis and the Search for TruthPhilosophy "in the Middle":Between Fichte and SpinozaDestroying the Illusion of the Finite: Schlegel's Critique of the ThingWilhelm Meister: Schlegel's Model of Coherence7. The Aesthetic Consequences of Antifoundationalism The Modern Spirit of RomanticismUnderstanding, Misunderstanding, and IronyIrony and the Necessity of PoetryNotesBibliographyIndex