Thinking Unrest
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Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.
From the longing in which Schelling based human freedom to the "restlessness of the negative" that Jean-Luc Nancy famously traced through Hegel's corpus, unrest centrally preoccupied many thinkers associated with German Idealism. Thinking Unrest gathers original essays from eight leading scholars to reopen the question of what moves thought both within German Idealism and among the movement's heirs. Through readings of Fichte, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling, as well as more contemporary writers such as Nicolas Abraham, Ernst Bloch, Antonio Gramsci, and Rainer Maria Rilke, contributors expose more broadly what it may mean for philosophy to be a matter of responding to that which provokes, troubles, and withdraws from thought. Drawing on various theoretical perspectives-poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, the history of science, political theory-the volume reconsiders the legacy of German Idealism for thinking unrest today.
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Kristina Mendicino is Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech) and Announcements: On Novelty, both by SUNY Press.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking Unrest
Kristina Mendicino
Critical Histories
1. Living the Crisis of the Present - with Hegel
Angelica Nuzzo
2. On Gaps: Is There a Politics of Absolute Knowing?
Rebecca Comay and Frank Ruda
3. "Prasens ist noch keine Prasenz": Revisiting the Darkness of the Lived Moment (Bloch with Hegel)
Gerhard Richter
4. Two Thousand Years and Not a Single New ... Goddess?: Notes on a Schelling Ill-at-Ease with the Traces of History
David Farrell Krell
Unsettling Systems
5. Tracing History: Between Hegel and Schelling, Between Nature and Art
Tilottama Rajan
6. Troubled Rests: On the Identity Crises of Idealism
Kristina Mendicino
7. Rilke by Schelling in the Night
Simon Horn
8. Fantastic Conjunctions: The Variables of the Imagination
Jan Mieszkowski
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