The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy

1. The Meaning of German Romanticism for the Philosopher.- Part I. Historical Context.- 2. The Poem of the Understanding: Kant, Novalis, and Early German Romantic Philosophy.- 3. F.H. Jacobi on Reason and Nihilism in Romanticism.- 4. Spinoza and Romanticism.- 5. Religion and Early German Romanticism.- 6. Femininity and the Salon.- 7.Fichte's Subject and Its Romantic Transformations.- 8. Friedrich Schiller and the Aestheticization of Ethics.- 9. Johann Gottfried Herder: Misunderstood Romantic?.- 10. Hermeneutics and Orientation: Retracing the 'Sciences of the Spirit' (Geisteswissenschaften) in the Education-Related Writings of Fichte, Schleiermacher and Novalis.- Part II. Aesthetics and Romanticism.- 11. Philosophical Critique and Literary Criticism in German Romanticism.- 12. Romantic Irony.- 13. The Role of the Fragment in German Romantic Philosophy and Nietzsche.- 14. Early German Romanticism and Literature: Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis and the New Philosophical Importance of the Novel.- 15. The Cinematic Afterlife of German Romanticism.- Part III. Romanticism and the Sciences.- 16. Romantic Biology: Carl Gustav Carus at the Edge of the Modern.- 17. Goethe's Philosophy of Nature.- 18. Romantic Acts of Generation.- 19. Arts of Unconditioning: On Romantic Science and Poetry.- 20. Romantic Conceptions of Life.- Part IV. Legacy.- 21. Women, Women Writers, and Early German Romanticism.- 22. Romantic Philosophy as Anthropology.- 23. From the Pantheism Panic to Modern Anxiety: Friedrich Schelling's Invention of the Philosophy of "Angst".- 24. Romanticism and Pessimism.- 25. Romanticism as Modernism: Richard Wagner's "Artwork of the Future".- 26. Between Appropriation and Transmission: The Romantic Thread in Heidegger's Existential Notion of Understanding.- 27. Sensibility, Reflection, and Play: Early German Romanticism and Its Legacy in Contemporary Continental Philosophy.- 28. 'The Concept of Critique': Between Early German Romanticism and Early Critical Theory.- 29. Romanticism, Anarchism, and Critical Theory.- 30. Conclusion: Romantic Currents of Thought: An Open Ending.