Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Introduction - Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century -- Note -- References -- 1 - The New Spinozism -- 1. Introduction: Crises of Reason -- 2. Jacobi and Spinozism -- 3. The Primacy of Existence -- 4. Fichte's Vocation of Man -- 5. Schelling and the Unity of Self and Nature in Art -- 6. Aftermaths -- Notes -- References -- 2 - The Absolute in German Idealism and Romanticism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Dualism and Monism in Kant -- 3. Fichte and the Ontological Absolute -- 4. The Absolute -- 5. Schelling -- 6. Hegel -- 7. Knowing the Absolute -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 - The Question of Romanticism -- 1. What is Romanticism? -- 1.1 Beginning -- 1.2 Returning -- 2. Backwards or Forwards? -- 2.1 Kant -- 2.2 Hegel -- 2.3 Linguistic Turns -- 2.4 Irony -- 2.5 Some Recent Appropriations -- 3. Revolutions -- Notes -- References -- 4 - The Hermeneutic Turn in Philosophy of Nature in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Natural Philosophy to the Natural Sciences -- 3. The Hermeneutics of Nature and its Genealogy -- 4. The Relationship Between Philosophy of Nature and the Natural Sciences -- 5. The Content of a Hermeneutics of Nature -- 6. The Fate of the Hermeneutics of Nature -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 - Idealism and Naturalism in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nature versus Freedom: Classical German Philosophy -- 3. After Hegel -- 4. Schopenhauer -- 5. Hartmann -- 6. Lotze -- 7. Anglo-American Idealism -- 8. Scientifically Orientated Neo-Kantianism -- 9. Nietzsche -- 10. Lebensphilosophie -- 11. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 - Darwinism and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century: The 'Whole of Metaphysics'? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. God and Cosmic Evolution -- 3. Mind and Evolutionary Epistemology -- 3.1 Chauncey Wright -- 3.2 William James.

3.3 Ernst Mach -- 4. Ethics and Evolution -- 5. Critics of Evolutionary Ethics -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 - Faith and Knowledge -- 1. Introduction: Why Faith and Knowledge? -- 2. Hegel and his Reception -- 3. Erdmann on Faith and Knowledge -- 4. Hegelianism Rejected: Strauss, Feuerbach and Kierkegaard -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 8 - Philosophising History: Distinguishing History as a Discipline -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hegel, the Philosophy of History and Historicism -- 3. Historical Empiricism and Positivism -- 4. The Response to Positivism: Understanding and Explanation -- 5. Patrolling the Boundaries: Rickert and Windelband -- 6. Bradley and The Presuppositions of Critical History -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 - Genealogy as Immanent Critique: Working from the Inside -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nietzsche's Example: Genealogy -- 3. The Prehistory of Genealogy -- 4. Hegel: Phenomenology on the Via Dolorosa -- 5. Marx: Materialist Dialectics -- 6. Mill: The Commitments of Modernity -- 7. Nietzsche's Distinctiveness -- 8. The Post-history of Genealogy -- Notes -- References -- 10 - Embodiment: Conceptions of the Lived Body from Maine de Biran to Bergson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Le corps propre in Maine de Biran -- 3. Ravaisson and the Habituated Body -- 4. Bergson's Dualism -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 - The Unconscious in the German Philosophy and Psychology of the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Origins of the Conception of the Unconscious in the Enlightenment -- 3. From the 'Vital Power' to the Vital Unconscious in Romanticism -- 4. The Turn Towards the Primacy of the 'Unconscious Will' in the Post-idealist Period -- 5. The Unconscious in Freud -- 6. The Unconscious in Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- References.

12 - Individuality, Radical Politics and the Metaphor of the Machine -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings: Humboldt and Schleiermacher -- 3. Pierre Leroux: Between Individualism and Socialism -- 4. John Stuart Mill's Synthesis -- 5. The Idea of Individuality and its Tensions -- Notes -- References -- 13 - The Rise of the Social -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kant, Hegel and the Social -- 3. The Beginning of the Nineteenth Century: One Revolution or Two? -- 4. The Social and the Political -- 5. The 'Social' Question -- 6. The Later Nineteenth Century -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14 - Theory and Practice of Revolution in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Jacobin Legacy -- 3. Marxism, Hegelianism and the Historical Model of Human Nature -- 4. Marxism, Anarchism and Social Democracy -- 5. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 15 - Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: From Absolute Subjectivity to Superhumanity -- 1. The Varieties of Nihilism -- 2. The Critique of Post-Kantian Idealism as Nihilism -- 3. Romantic Nihilism -- 4. Hegel: Nihilism and Absolute Knowledge -- 5. Left Hegelianism and Nihilism -- 6. Russian Nihilism -- 7. Nietzsche's Conception of Nihilism -- 8. Nihilism After Nietzsche -- Notes -- References -- 16 - Repetition and Recurrence: Putting Metaphysics in Motion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Kierkegaard's Category of Repetition -- 3. Nietzsche's Thought of Eternal Recurrence -- 4. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Notes -- References -- 17 - Nineteenth-Century Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -- 1. Methodological Reflections -- 2. Back to the Future -- 3. The Return of German Idealism -- Notes -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Index.