Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: On the German Contribution: Giving Form to Freedom 1. Friedrich Schiller's Dramatic Philosophy: Freedom in Form I. On the Significance of Style II. Biographical Background III. Nature Speaks to Nature IV. Writing as a Free Gift V. Meaning in Motion VI. Elements of the Dramatic VII.
Freestyle VIII. Poet or Philosopher? 2. An Aesthetics of Freedom: Schiller and the Living Gestalt I. Introduction: Schiller's Breakthrough II. The Analogy of Form III. Form Overcoming Form IV. Manifest Freedom in Nature V. Heautonomy and Heteronomy VI.
Freedom and Human Nature VII. Living Gestalt and Human Wholeness VIII. The Seriousness of Play IX. A Criticism and the Question of Contradiction X. Nobility or Bourgeois Aestheticism? 3. The Dark Roots of Life: Organic Form as a Symbol of Freedom in Schelling's Naturphilosophie I. The Philosophy of the Future II. The Origins of Schelling's Naturphilosophie III.
The Impoverishment of Nature IV. The Impoverishment of Spirit V. Naturphilosophie and the Place of the Organism VI. Natural Freedom VII. Freedom or Form? 4. From Organism to Incarnation: The Fall and Redemption of Finite Form in Schelling's Late Philosophy I. Ontological Freedom II. The Fate of the Real in the Early Systems III.
The Positivity of Finite Freedom IV. The Actuality of Evil and Love in History V. Creation as Theogony VI. Love, Nature, and Freedom: A Final Assessment 5. Freedom as the Concrete Form of Reason in Hegel's Philosophy of Right I. Introduction: Hegel's Uniqueness II. Preliminary Considerations III. Rational Politics IV.
Political Reason V. On the Meaning of Actuality VI. Philosophical Sources VII. The Importance of Being Finite VIII. The Will as Concrete Freedom IX. Conclusion 6. "The 'I' That Is 'We' and the 'We' That Is 'I'": On the Sociality of Freedom in Hegel and Its Excesses I. The Controversy Surrounding Hegel's Conception of the State II.
Communal Spirit III. Sittlichkeit as Social Form IV. Freedom and Absolute Spirit 7. A Dramatic Conclusion: Opening Up Actual Possibility Bibliography Index.