Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media

The comparison of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer is clear and fully developed; in fact, Andriopoulos's helical writing style in the introduction and first two chapters ("The Magic Lantern of Philosophy: Specters of Kant" and "Ghosts and Phantasmagoria in Hegel and Schopenhauer") reinforces key quotations from and interpretations of these three writers, leaving one very much persuaded by his claim, contrary to Diethard Sawicki and others, that we must consider seriously the importance of apparitions, somnambulism, telepathy, and other supernatural occurrences in our exegetical processing of these philosophers' epistemologies. Given the stress placed on this final chapter in the introduction, I expected it to tie up the preceding chapters, but in addition to lacking an overall conclusion, it devoted the least space to idealism in the book (limited to a passing comment on spiritualist du Prel's interest in Kant and Schopenhauer on p. 146), and there is no linkage of any kind to the Gothic novel in this section. [...]that final chapter, there are several repeating frames and notions that are worth exploration.