Suspension of reason in Hegel and Schelling

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Suspension -- Hegel and Schelling? -- Outline of the whole -- The surge of reason : faculty epistemology in Kant and Fichte. The first Critique's basic distinction -- The third Critique -- Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre -- Ascendant reason : the early Schelling. Of the I -- The 'treatises' -- 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 -- Synthetic reason : the System of transcendental idealism. The idea of system -- The synthetic method -- History and art -- Reason as reflection and speculation : Hegel's collaboration with Schelling. The differenzschrift -- Krug's pen -- 'The sacred abyss' : Schelling's identity philosophy. The Darstellung -- System of philosophy in general -- Space, time, and suspension : Hegel's 'absolute knowing.' The Phenomenology's critique of Schelling -- 'Absolute knowing' -- Suspended reason : Hegel on 'the certainty and truth of reason.' Empty idealism -- Observing nature -- Observing self-consciousness -- Self-actualizing reason -- The project of individuality -- 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 -- Reason's systematic excess I : Hegel's system. The myth of totalizing reason -- The philosophy of nature -- History -- Reason's systematic excess II : the transition to Schelling's positive philosophy. The natural history of reason -- The critique of Hegel -- Now what?