Mythology, madness and laughter are subjects that have been neglected as objects of study associated with German idealism. Markus Gabriel and Slavoj Zizek show us how these themes affect the problematic relationships between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and necessity. In relation to three central figures of the German idealist movement, Hegel Schelling and Fichte, Gabriel and Zizek wonder how it is possible for Being to appear in reflection without falling into traditional metaphysics. At the same time, they invite us to rethink what is at stake when conceiving a post-structuralist account of what we call the world. Thus, noticing the possibility of a certain return to pre-Kantian objectivism in contemporary philosophy, the rereading of the idealist theories of reflection and concrete subjectivity, carried out by these authors, seeks to revitalize a philosophy of finitude and contingency.