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Introduction
To Philosophize Is to Think Freely, to Learn to Live Freely
1.The Beloved Hometown: Growing Up in Stuttgart, 1770–1788
2.A Student at the Protestant Seminary:Tübingen, 1788–1793
3.A Private Tutor of a Patrician Family: Switzerland, 1793–1796
4.From a Mosaic of Fragments to the Cornerstone of a System: Frankfurt, 1797–1800
5.The Birth of Absolute Idealism: Jena 1801–1807
6.The Political Journalist: Bamberg, 1807–1808
7.The First Humanistic Gymnasium and the Science of Logic: Nuremberg, 1808–1816
8.The Owl of Minerva on the Neckar: Heidelberg, 1816–1818
9.The "Great Center": Becoming World-Famous in Berlin, 1818–1831 Obituaries
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Names