Contents

Introduction

Suspension

Hegel and Schelling?

Outline of the Whole

Chapter 1: The Surge of Reason: Faculty Epistemology in Kant and Fichte

The First Critique’s Basic Distinction

The Third Critique

Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre

Chapter 2: Ascendant Reason: The Early Schelling

Of the I

The ‘Treatises’

Chapter 3: Metastatic Reason: Schelling’s Nature Philosophy

Organic Reason: Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature

Rational Nature: On the World-Soul

The Inhibition of Nature: The Erster Entwurf

Chapter 4: Synthetic Reason: The System of Transcendental Idealism

The Idea of System

The Synthetic Method

History and Art

Chapter 5: Reason as Reflection and Speculation: Hegel’s Collaboration with Schelling

The Differenzschrift

Krug’s Pen

Chapter 6: ‘The Sacred Abyss’: Schelling’s Identity Philosophy

The Darstellung

System of Philosophy in General

Chapter 7: Space, Time, and Suspension: Hegel’s ‘Absolute Knowing’

The Phenomenology’s Critique of Schelling

‘Absolute Knowing’

Chapter 8: Suspended Reason: Hegel on ‘The Certainty and Truth of Reason’

Empty Idealism

Observing Nature

Observing Self-Consciousness

Self-Actualizing Reason

The Project of Individuality

Chapter 9: Reason on the Periphery: Schelling’s Freedom Essay

Reason as Peripheral

Pantheism and Freedom

God as Existing

Longing for Ground

The Possibility of Evil

The Actuality of Evil

System, Ground, and Indifference

Chapter 10: Reason’s Systematic Excess I: Hegel’s System

The Myth of Totalizing Reason

The Philosophy of Nature

History

Chapter 11: Reason’s Systematic Excess II: The Transition to Schelling’s Positive Philosophy

The Natural History of Reason

The Critique of Hegel

Now What?

Notes

Bibliography

Index