CONTENTS

Foreword

Kevin Hart

Introduction: Jean Wahl, A Human Existence and Transcendence(s)

William C. Hackett

— HUMAN EXISTENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE —

Preface

On Existence

On the Idea of Transcendence

Subjectivity and Transcendence

On the Idea of Being

On the Absolute

On Space and Time

On Descartes

Poetry and Metaphysics

Magic and Romanticism: Notes on Novalis and Blake

Novalis and the Principle of Contradiction

From “Wahl’s Famous Lecture” (Meeting of the Société française de philosophie, December 4, 1937)

Introductory Note and Dramatis Personae of December 4, 1937

William C. Hackett

Discussion

Letters

Translated by Jeffrey Hanson

Appendix 1. Selected List of Philosophers, Artists, and Poets in Wahl’s Text

Appendix 2. Books by Jean Wahl in English