Introduction: 'Germany' and German philosophy; Part I. Kant and the
Revolution in Philosophy: 1. The revolution in philosophy I: Human
spontaneity and the natural order; 2. The revolution in philosophy II:
Autonomy and the moral order; 3. The revolution in philosophy III:
Aesthetic taste, teleology, and the world order; Part II. The Revolution
Continued: Post-Kantians: 4. The 1780s: the immediate post-Kantian
reaction: Jacobi and Reinhold; 5. The 1790s: Fichte; 6. The 1790s after
Fichte: The romantic appropriation of Kant I: Hölderlin, Novalis,
Schleiermacher, Schlegel; 7. 1795-1809: The romantic appropriation of Kant
II: Schelling; 8. 1801-7: The other post-Kantian: Jacob Friedrich Fries and
non-romantic sentimentalism; Part III. The Revolution Completed? Hegel: 9.
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: post-Kantianism in a new vein; 10. Hegel's
analysis of mind and world: the Science of Logic; 11. Nature and spirit:
Hegel's system; Part IV. The Revolution in Question: 12. Schelling's
attempt at restoration: idealism under review; 13. Kantian paradoxes and
modern despair: Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard; Conclusion. The legacy of
idealism.