Transcendental Ontology: Essays in German Idealism (Continuum Studies In Philosophy)

Transcendental Ontology in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel sheds remarkable light on a question central to post-Kantian philosophy: after the Copernican Revolution in philosophy, what can philosophy say about the world or reality as such? What remains of ontology's task after Kant? This is a question often overlooked in contemporary scholarship on German Idealism. Markus Gabriel offers a refreshing reinvigoration of a range of questions concerning scepticism, corporeality, freedom, the question of being, the absolute and the modal status of our determinations and judgments, all crucial to our understanding of the truly radical nature of post-Kantian philosophy. Gabriel's assessment of the experiments undertaken in post-Kantian ontology reaffirms Schelling's and Hegel's place at the heart of contemporary metaphysics. The book shows how far we still have to go in mining the thought of Hegel and Schelling and how exciting, as a result, we can expect twenty-first century philosophy to be. --Publisher description Contents 6 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 8 Chapter 1: The Ontology of Knowledge 34 I: Schelling, Hegel, and the Metaphysical Truth of Skepticism 35 II: Absolute Identity and Reflection: Kant, Hegel, McDowell 67 III: The Pathological Structure of Representation As Such: Hegel鈥檚 Anthropology 81 Chapter 2: Schelling鈥檚 Ontology of Freedom 93 I: Unprethinkable Being and the Event: The Concept of Being in Late Schelling and Late Heidegger 94 II: Belated Necessity: God, Man, and Judgment in Schelling鈥檚 Late Philosophy 114 Chapter 3: Contingency or Necessity? Schelling versus Hegel 135 I: The Dialectic of the Absolute: Hegel鈥檚 Critique of Transcendent Metaphysics 137 II: The Spielraum of Contingency: Schelling and Hegel on the Modal Status of Logical Space 152 Notes 170 Bibliography 197 Index 204 A 204 B 204 C 204 D 205 E 205 F 205 G 205 H 205 I 205 J 205 K 205 L 206 M 206 N 206 O 206 P 206 Q 206 R 206 S 206 T 207 W 207 9781441116291 Continuum International Publishing Group Re-assesses the contributions of Hegel and Schelling to post-Kantian metaphysics and the contributions of these great German Idealist thinkers to contemporary thought. This book shows how far we still have to go in mining the thought of Hegel and Schelling and how exciting, as a result, we can expect twenty-first century philosophy to be.