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.