This book offers a unique account of the development of thinking about nature from Early German Romanticism into the philosophies of nature of Schelling, Hegel, and beyond. Alison Stone explores the ethical and political implications of German Romantic and Idealist ideas about nature, including for gender, race, and environmentalism.

• Contents
• Acknowledgements and Permissions
• Abbreviations
• Chapter One: German Romantic and Idealist Accounts of Nature and Their Legacy
• Part One: Romantic Nature
  • Chapter Two: The Romantic Absolute
  • Chapter Three: Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism and the Re-Enchantment of Nature
  • Chapter Four: Being, Knowledge and Nature in Novalis
  • Chapter Five: Alienation from Nature and Early German Romanticism
  • Chapter Six: Hölderlin on Nature
• Part Two: Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature
  • Chapter Seven: Philosophy of Nature
  • Chapter Eight: Hegel, Naturalism and the Philosophy of Nature
  • Chapter Nine: Hegel, Nature and Ethics
• Part Three: Hegel, Gender and Race
  • Chapter Ten: Sexual Polarity in Schelling and Hegel
  • Chapter Eleven: Matter and Form
  • Chapter Twelve: Gender, the Family and the Organic State in Hegel’s Political Thought
  • Chapter Thirteen: Hegel and Colonialism
  • Chapter Fourteen: Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy
• Bibliography
• Index