Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Philosophy -- Chapter 2: Novalis' Fichte-Studies: A "Constellational" Approach -- 1 The "Jena Constellation" -- 2 Reinhold's Core Idea and the Critique of His Students -- 3 Novalis in the Jena Constellation. The Origins of the "Fichte-Studies" -- 4 The Outline of the "Fichte-Studies": Introductory Considerations on the Connection of Being, Identity, Judgement, and Reflection -- 5 A Closer Look at the Beginning of the "Fichte-Studies": Consciousness as Image of Being -- "The Sense of Self" as Consciousness of Depending on Being -- 6 The "ordo inversus" of Reflection -- 7 "Original Act" (Urhandlung) and "Intellectual Intuition" -- 8 A Comparison with Hölderlin's Sketch of an Argument in "Judgement and Being" -- 9 The Dialectic of Feeling/Reflection, Substance/Form, State/Object, Being/Thought, Being/Non-being, Essence/Attribute -- 10 The Absolute as Kantian Idea -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Dialectic and Imagination in Friedrich Schlegel -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fichte's Approach -- 3 Schlegel's Approach -- 4 The Imagination in Schlegel -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Hegel as an Attendee of Schlegel's Lectures on Transcendental Philosophy in Jena -- 1 Hegel and Schlegel in Jena -- 2 Hegel as an Attendee of Schlegel's Lectures on Transcendental Philosophy -- 3 Hegel's Early Critique of Schlegel -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Schleiermacher and the "Consideration for the Foreign": The Need to Belong and Cosmopolitanism in Romantic Germany -- 1 A Fundamental Condition of Human Existence -- 2 The Need to Belong -- 3 Consideration for the Foreign -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Romantic Antisemitism -- 1 The Worm in the Bud -- 2 The Berlin Tischgesellschaft -- 3 The Christian State -- 4 Schleiermacher as Judenfeind.