Thinking Unrest

Kristina Mendicino is Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech) and Announcements: On Novelty, both by SUNY Press.

"An exciting volume. Each essay thinks through details of German Idealist texts through to the end without compromise or flinching. This gives the book a genuine atmosphere of ambition, wide scope, and invention. New insights emerge on every page, and it is thrilling to read researchers on top of their game doing work that is both so precise and so speculatively far-reaching." — Daniel Whistler, author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language"Thinking Unrest makes an eloquent case for Hegel, Schelling, and Hölderlin (among others) as critical resources for an age grappling with the ambivalences of its own forms of restlessness. Each essay draws on seminal texts and thinkers of German philosophy and poetry around 1800 to confront the consequences of various sources of restlessness and forms of destabilization: in language, in rhythms, in concepts, in history, in ways of knowing and architectures of knowledge, and in consciousness. The volume thus offers a comprehensive reevaluation of German Idealism and a welcome addition to intellectual history, continental philosophy, literary theory, comparative literature, and German studies." — Gabriel Trop, author of Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking UnrestKristina MendicinoCritical Histories1. Living the Crisis of the Present — with HegelAngelica Nuzzo2. On Gaps: Is There a Politics of Absolute Knowing?Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda3. "Prasens ist noch keine Prasenz": Revisiting the Darkness of the Lived Moment (Bloch with Hegel)Gerhard Richter4. Two Thousand Years and Not a Single New … Goddess?: Notes on a Schelling Ill-at-Ease with the Traces of HistoryDavid Farrell KrellUnsettling Systems5. Tracing History: Between Hegel and Schelling, Between Nature and ArtTilottama Rajan6. Troubled Rests: On the Identity Crises of IdealismKristina Mendicino7. Rilke by Schelling in the NightSimon Horn8. Fantastic Conjunctions: The Variables of the ImaginationJan MieszkowskiContributorsIndex