The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy

Introduction.- Kant’s Negative Noumena as Abstracta.- Imagination and Transcendental Objects: Kant on the Imaginary Focus of Reason.- Nothing Really Matters: Can Kant’s Table of Nothing Secure Metaphysics as Queen of the Sciences?.- Kant’s Space and Time as Nothing: Empirical Reality as the Ground of Experience.- The Relation Between Reality and Negation in Kant, Maimon, and Fichte.- Caput Mortuum: Truth, Freedom and Negation in Fichte’s Institutiones Omnis.- The Non-Being of the Idea.- Through Consciousness Parted from Dream: Alternative Knowledge Forms in Karoline von Günderrode.- Herder and Daoism on Touching the Spirit of Sculpture.- Nothingness, Negation, and Buddhism in Schopenhauer.- Against the Flow: Negative Freedom in Schelling and Schopenhauer.- Absolute Negation: Schelling and Nishitani.- Negative, Positive, and Complementarity. Remarks Concerning Schelling’s Absolute Idealism.- Positivity and Time in Schelling’s Philosophical Development.- The Difference Between Hegel and Schelling on Freedom and Negativity.- The Emergence of the Unprethinkable: On Schelling’s Methodology in 1821 and his Early Critique of Hegel.- On Positive Philosophy: Hegel’s Retort to Schelling.- Prefacing the Absolute:Two Models of Situating Self-Negating Negativity in Hegel’s Wissenschaft der Logik from 1812 and 1832.- Nothing.- Negation Driven to the Limit: Reality and Ideality of Finitude.- Negation and Contradiction in Truth, Right, and Beauty.- Negation in Hegel’s Logic.- Discovery Through Negation.- Negative Sublimity: Hegel’s Description of Jewish Religion.- From Nicht to Etwas: Transcendental Method and Judgment of Origin in Herman Cohen’s Idealism.- Concrete Negation: The Dialectic of Culture’s Self-Destruction in Cassirer and Adorno.- Negativity in Cassirer: On the Scope and Limits of a Hegelian Reading.