The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism

Part I: Anticipations of Existentialism in the German Idealists.- 1. The Stumbling Block of Existence in F. H. Jacobi; Paolo Livieri.- 2. Kant and Existentialism: Inescapable Freedom and Self-Deception; Roe Fremstedal.- 3. Fichte and Existentialism: Freedom and Finitude, Self-Positing and Striving; Steven Hoeltzel.- 4. Schelling as a Transitional Figure from Idealism to Existentialism; Zoltán Gyenge.- 5."Return to Intervention in the Life of Human Beings": Existentialist Themes in the Development of Hegel's Social and Political Philosophy; C. Allen Speight.- 6. The Existentialist Basis of Schopenhauer's Pessimism; Robert Wicks.- 7. An Early Ally of Existentialism? Trendelenburg's Logical Investigations in the Mirror of Kierkegaard's Literary Project; Heiko Schulz.- Part II: The Existentialists' Use of the German Idealists. - 8. Kierkegaard: A Transitional Figure from German Idealism to Existentialism; Jon Stewart.- 9. "The Honeymoon of German Philosophy": Nietzsche and German Idealism; Daniel Conway.- 10. Buber and German Idealism: Between Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Religion; Peter Sajda.- 11. Historicism, Neo-Idealism, and Modern Theology: Paul Tillich and German Idealism; Christian Danz.- 12. "The Last Kantian": Outlines of Karl Jaspers's Ambivalent Reception of German Idealism; István Czakó.- 13. Beyond the Critique of Judgment: Arendt and German Idealism; Matthew Wester.- 14. Heidegger and Kant, or Heidegger's Poetic Idealism of Imagination; David Espinet.- 15. Heidegger and German Idealism (Fichte, Schelling, Hegel): Subjectivity and Finitude; Sylvaine Gourdain and Lucian Ionel.- 16. Jacques Maritain: A Thomist Encounters Existentialism; Lee C. Barrett.- 17. The Ethics of Resistance: Camus's Encounter with German Idealism; Thomas P. Miles.- 18. Merleau-Ponty and Hegel: Meaning and its Expression in History; David Ciavatta.- 19. Hegel and Sartre: The Search for Totality; Bruce Baugh.- 20. Women, Jews, and Other Others: The Influence of Hegel on Beauvoir and Levinas; Claire Katz.