This book will be the first complete English-language edition and translation of Schlegel’s lecture course Transcendental Philosophy. It will be of utmost interest to students and scholars of German Idealism and Romanticism. Here, Schlegel irrefutably situates himself within the strain of German Idealism that sought to overcome Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by combining metaphysics with epistemology, realism with idealism, or Spinoza with Fichte. In so doing, he offers a sui generis systematic exposition of German Romanticism that covers the nature of truth, the absolute, the history of consciousness, human nature, morality, politics, religion, and even meta-philosophy.