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Note on Translations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Böhme; Hegel; Other Sources; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Reception of Böhme's Philosophy Around 1800; 1 Preamble: Böhme's Comeback in Germany and the Romantic Reception; 1.1 The "Mystical Cobbler" and Franckenberg's Biography of Böhme; 1.2 Böhme and the Jena Circle; 1.2.1 Tieck's "Hypochondriac Enthusiasm" for Böhme's Writings; 1.2.2 Böhme's Poesie According to Friedrich Schlegel; 2 The Reception of Böhme's Philosophy Through the Theories of Animal Magnetism and Theosophy
2.1 Naturphilosophie and Animal Magnetism: Nature's Dynamics and the Mystical Experience of Magnetic Sleep2.2 Böhme's Mysticism Between Paracelsus and Theosophy; 3 The Historical Context of Hegel's Encounter with Theosophia Revelata; 3.1 Magnetic 'Torpor' and Böhme's Speculation: The Reasons for a Missing Link; 3.1.1 The Correspondence Between Hegel and van Ghert; 3.1.2 Animal Magnetism and Hellsehen in the Encyclopedia; 3.2 The Influence of Pietism and Mysticism on the Young Hegel; Chapter 2: Two Different Conceptions of Mysticism in Hegel's Writings
1 The Meaning of Mysticism and Its Role in the Early Writings1.1 Mysticism in Fragments on Popular Religion and Christianity; 1.2 Mystical Action and Mystical Object; 1.2.1 Mystical Action and the Difference Between the Mystical and the Symbolic; 1.2.2 The Mystical Object and Its Contradictions; 1.2.3 Luther and the "Mystical Point" of the Ritual; 1.3 Speaking Mystically: Mysticism, Movement and Schwärmerei in The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate; 2 Mysticism and Mystification: The Hegelian Attack on the Mystical Alienation of the Romantics and of the Followers of Schelling
2.1 The Leap Beyond the Limit and the Pistol Shot in the Preface to the Phenomenology2.2 Hegel's Review of Solger's Writings and the "Mystical Tendency" of Romanticism; 2.3 From Mystification to Mysticism; 3 Mysticism and Speculation; 3.1 The Mystery and the Secret; 3.2 Mystical Enthusiasm and the Movement of Thought; 3.2.1 The Neoplatonists and the Mystical Scholastics; 3.2.2 The Dispute over the Notion of Mystical Enthusiasm (Schwärmerei); 3.2.3 The Case of Jakob Böhme; 4 Appendix. The Loss of Mystical Mobility: Schelling; Chapter 3: Hegel as Interpreter of Böhme
1 The Beginnings: References to Böhme in the Jena Texts1.1 Mysticism as a Middle Way: Böhme and Oriental Mysticism; 1.2 The "Life Cycle of God": Böhme's Use of Imagery in Fragment 49; 1.3 The Dialectic Vitality of the Divine Triangle; 2 Böhme in Hegel's Published Works; 2.1 References in the Encyclopedia and in Logic, Or: What Is Alive and What Is Dead in Böhme's Philosophy; 2.1.1 Böhme and Paracelsus; 2.1.2 Lucifer and the Negativity of Nature: The Zusatz to Paragraph 248 of the Encyclopedia; 2.1.3 The "Famous Question Regarding the Origin of Evil in the World"
2.1 Naturphilosophie and Animal Magnetism: Nature's Dynamics and the Mystical Experience of Magnetic Sleep2.2 Böhme's Mysticism Between Paracelsus and Theosophy; 3 The Historical Context of Hegel's Encounter with Theosophia Revelata; 3.1 Magnetic 'Torpor' and Böhme's Speculation: The Reasons for a Missing Link; 3.1.1 The Correspondence Between Hegel and van Ghert; 3.1.2 Animal Magnetism and Hellsehen in the Encyclopedia; 3.2 The Influence of Pietism and Mysticism on the Young Hegel; Chapter 2: Two Different Conceptions of Mysticism in Hegel's Writings
1 The Meaning of Mysticism and Its Role in the Early Writings1.1 Mysticism in Fragments on Popular Religion and Christianity; 1.2 Mystical Action and Mystical Object; 1.2.1 Mystical Action and the Difference Between the Mystical and the Symbolic; 1.2.2 The Mystical Object and Its Contradictions; 1.2.3 Luther and the "Mystical Point" of the Ritual; 1.3 Speaking Mystically: Mysticism, Movement and Schwärmerei in The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate; 2 Mysticism and Mystification: The Hegelian Attack on the Mystical Alienation of the Romantics and of the Followers of Schelling
2.1 The Leap Beyond the Limit and the Pistol Shot in the Preface to the Phenomenology2.2 Hegel's Review of Solger's Writings and the "Mystical Tendency" of Romanticism; 2.3 From Mystification to Mysticism; 3 Mysticism and Speculation; 3.1 The Mystery and the Secret; 3.2 Mystical Enthusiasm and the Movement of Thought; 3.2.1 The Neoplatonists and the Mystical Scholastics; 3.2.2 The Dispute over the Notion of Mystical Enthusiasm (Schwärmerei); 3.2.3 The Case of Jakob Böhme; 4 Appendix. The Loss of Mystical Mobility: Schelling; Chapter 3: Hegel as Interpreter of Böhme
1 The Beginnings: References to Böhme in the Jena Texts1.1 Mysticism as a Middle Way: Böhme and Oriental Mysticism; 1.2 The "Life Cycle of God": Böhme's Use of Imagery in Fragment 49; 1.3 The Dialectic Vitality of the Divine Triangle; 2 Böhme in Hegel's Published Works; 2.1 References in the Encyclopedia and in Logic, Or: What Is Alive and What Is Dead in Böhme's Philosophy; 2.1.1 Böhme and Paracelsus; 2.1.2 Lucifer and the Negativity of Nature: The Zusatz to Paragraph 248 of the Encyclopedia; 2.1.3 The "Famous Question Regarding the Origin of Evil in the World"