Abstract

This chapter considers Idealism’s encyclopedic knowledge-systems as a “general economy” that deconstructs any panlogical unification of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and the natural sciences, thus yielding a new model of “system.” It argues that as Kant’s “restricted” model of architectonic is displaced in the work of Hegel and Schelling in more dynamic and bio-logical—rather than logical—directions, system becomes “subject” (to adapt Hegel), opening philosophy to its own autobiography.