Cia van Woezik (1958), Ph.D., has studied theology and philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She has published in Dutch on mysticism, and recently her first novel Een vrouw als Job [A Woman like Job] has come out (Berneboek, 2009).

• Introduction Chapter 1 I-hood 1.1. A Brief Phenomenology of I-hood 1.2. Two Models of Self-Consciousness in German Idealism 1.3. Henrich’s Metaphysical Model of Self-Consciousness 1.4. From Here Onwards Chapter 2 From the I to the Absolute 2.1. Connecting Kant and Spinoza 2.2. Baruch de Spinoza 2.3. The Early Reception of Spinoza’s Philosophy 2.4. Pantheism Controversy 2.5. Merging the Absolute with the God of the Bible 2.6. The I and the Absolute 2.7. From Here Onwards Chapter 3 Schelling: Th e I and its Ground 3.1. Philosophical Stages and Teachers 3.2. The Absolute as I in the Early Schelling 3.3. Attempts at Cutting the Gordian Knot of Philosophy 3.4. Philosophy as the System of Freedom 3.5. From Here Onwards Chapter 4 Hölderlin: Th e I and its Ground 4.1. Judgment and Being 4.2. Self-Consciousness 4.3. Worldly Echoes of Being 4.4. Religion 4.5. Life’s Conflicting Tendencies 4.6. Being and History 4.7. The Eschaton and Celebration of Peace 4.8. From Here Onwards Chapter 5 Intellectual Intuition and Metaphysics 5.1. Fichte 5.2. Schelling 5.3. Hölderlin 5.4. From Here Onwards Chapter 6 Th e Absolute Ground versus God 6.1. Henrich’s Metaphysics 6.2. Rahner’s Metaphysics 6.3. From Here Onwards Chapter 7 God – Beyond Me 7.1. Who am I? 7.2. Who am I to God? 7.3. Who is God to Me? 7.4. Who are We? 7.5. Who is God? Appendix A Wie wenn am Feiertage (1799) Appendix B Natur und Kunst (1801) Appendix C Friedensfeier (1802) Bibliography Index