Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006) and Skeptizismus und Idealismus in der Antike (Suhrkamp, 2009) and is also co-author, with Slavoj Zizek, of Mythology, Madness and Laughter (Continuum, 2009)

• Translator's Introduction; Introduction; Part I: The Ontology of Knowledge; 1. The Metaphysical Truth of Skepticism in Schelling and Hegel; 2. Absolute Identity and Reflection: Kant, Hegel, McDowell; 3. The Pathological Structure of Representation As Such: Soul, Body, and World in Hegel's Anthropology; Part II: Schelling's Ontology of Freedom; 4. The Ungrund as the Unsurpassable Other of Reflection: Schelling and the Way Out of Idealism; 5. Unprethinkable Being and the Event: The Concept of Being in late Schelling and late Heidegger; 6. Belated Necessity: God, Man and Judgment in Schelling's Positive Philosophy; Part III: Contingency and Transcendence: Schelling v. Hegel?; 7. The Dialectic of the Absolute: Hegel's Critique of Transcendent Metaphysics; 8. The Spielraum of Contingency: Schelling and Hegel on the Modal Status of Logical Space; Bibliography; Index.

Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006) and Skeptizismus und Idealismus in der Antike (Suhrkamp, 2009) and is also co-author, with Slavoj Zizek, of Mythology, Madness and Laughter (Continuum, 2009)

• Translator's Introduction; Introduction; Part I: The Ontology of Knowledge; 1. The Metaphysical Truth of Skepticism in Schelling and Hegel; 2. Absolute Identity and Reflection: Kant, Hegel, McDowell; 3. The Pathological Structure of Representation As Such: Soul, Body, and World in Hegel's Anthropology; Part II: Schelling's Ontology of Freedom; 4. The Ungrund as the Unsurpassable Other of Reflection: Schelling and the Way Out of Idealism; 5. Unprethinkable Being and the Event: The Concept of Being in late Schelling and late Heidegger; 6. Belated Necessity: God, Man and Judgment in Schelling's Positive Philosophy; Part III: Contingency and Transcendence: Schelling v. Hegel?; 7. The Dialectic of the Absolute: Hegel's Critique of Transcendent Metaphysics; 8. The Spielraum of Contingency: Schelling and Hegel on the Modal Status of Logical Space; Bibliography; Index.

Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology and Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. He has published a number of books and journal articles in German, including Der Mensch im Mythos (De Gruyter, 2006), Das Absolute und die Welt in Schellings Freiheitsschrift (Bonn University Press, 2006) and Skeptizismus und Idealismus in der Antike (Suhrkamp, 2009) and is also co-author, with Slavoj Zizek, of Mythology, Madness and Laughter (Continuum, 2009)

• Translator's Introduction; Introduction; Part I: The Ontology of Knowledge; 1. The Metaphysical Truth of Skepticism in Schelling and Hegel; 2. Absolute Identity and Reflection: Kant, Hegel, McDowell; 3. The Pathological Structure of Representation As Such: Soul, Body, and World in Hegel's Anthropology; Part II: Schelling's Ontology of Freedom; 4. The Ungrund as the Unsurpassable Other of Reflection: Schelling and the Way Out of Idealism; 5. Unprethinkable Being and the Event: The Concept of Being in late Schelling and late Heidegger; 6. Belated Necessity: God, Man and Judgment in Schelling's Positive Philosophy; Part III: Contingency and Transcendence: Schelling v. Hegel?; 7. The Dialectic of the Absolute: Hegel's Critique of Transcendent Metaphysics; 8. The Spielraum of Contingency: Schelling and Hegel on the Modal Status of Logical Space; Bibliography; Index.