The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Editorial Apparatus and Standard Abbreviations     xi
Translator's Introduction     1
The Singularity of F. W. J. Schelling     1
Expectations in Berlin     6
An Existential System of Philosophy     15
The Grounding of Positive Philosophy     24
Schelling's Negative Philosophy     33
Existence as the Inverted Idea     37
Hegel Critiqued     54
Abduction as the Method of Positive Philosophy     68
Towards a Philosophical Religion     81
Translator's Note     85
On Philosophy     91
On the Academic Study of Philosophy     101
Metaphysics before Kant     113
Kant, Fichte, and a Science of Reason     127
The Difference between Negative and Positive Philosophy     141
History of Negative and Positive Philosophy     155
Metaphysical Empiricism     171
The Grounding of Positive Philosophy     193
Notes     213
Index     227