Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index.

Introduction : an odyssey of the self -- Kant's faculties and the 'I think' -- The faculties of cognition -- The transcendental unity of apperception -- The esoteric Kant -- From Kant to Hegel -- Kant and Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Hegel's logic and the self -- What is Hegelian logic? -- The self in the Logic of the concept -- Concept, judgement and syllogism -- Logic and ontology in the Logic of the concept -- Mechanism -- Chemism -- Teleology -- The idea and the loss of the absolute in Hegel's logic -- Life -- Cognition -- The absolute idea -- Soul between body and spirit in Hegel -- The natural soul -- The feeling soul -- The actual soul -- From Kant and Hegel to Steiner -- Excursus : the self in Nietzsche -- Steiner's spiritual vision of the self -- Conclusion : metaphysics as Christology.