Cover -- TRAGEDY IN HEGEL'S EARLY THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Monotheism of Reason and the Heart, Polytheism of the Imagination and Art -- Part 1 Positivity and the Concrete Idea of Freedom -- 1. Positivity and Historical Reversal -- Positivität: Either Life or Death -- Conviction and the Proper Name "Hegel" -- Faith and Knowledge in Modernity -- Kant in Athens -- Secret Revolutions in Spirit -- Volksreligionen -- Greeks, Jews, and Christians -- Positivity Embodied -- Quality, Quantity, and a Lack of Measure -- Friendship -- Excursus on Measure in the Greek Republic -- Sects -- The Circuitous Route -- 2. On Expansion -- Divided Jesus -- The Comedy of Failed Sacrifices -- Die Mahle der geistlichen Liebe -- The Drive Outward -- Resentment and the Imperial Will -- Internal Expansion -- The Modern Complementum of the Law -- Positivity as Asceticism -- A German Theseus? -- Excursus on Hölderlin's Death of Empedocles -- Truth for the Imagination -- The Flight of the Gods and the Loss of Immanence -- The Greek versus Christian Imagination -- Part 2 The Spirit of Withdrawal -- 3. The Idea of Freedom as Independence -- Baptismos -- A Typology of Responses to Nature's Infidelity -- The Abrahamic Tear -- Mastery, Imagination, and Fate -- Human Nature and Its Perversion -- Poetic History -- Tragic Sacrifice and World Historical Individuals -- Jesus in the First and Final Act -- 4. Withdrawal and Exile -- Separation from Separation -- The Shaman of Königsberg -- "I was once alive apart from the law" -- Married Life -- A Different Genius -- Plērōma -- On Crime and Punishment -- Grace, Fate, Catharsis -- The Empty Site of the Law -- Beauty in Withdrawal -- 5. Dialectic of Love -- Beauty as Love Objectified -- Last Supper Revisited.

The Proper Vessel of the Infinite -- Beyond Faith -- Pure Life -- Logic of Love -- The Fate of Christianity as Tragedy -- The Hovering God -- Dissolution/auf heben -- Conclusion: Comedy, Subjectivity, and the Negative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.