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14Imagination and Reflection (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (4): 854-856. 1984.As is indicated by its ungainly title, this is a monograph devoted to the first published version of J. G. Fichte's transcendental philosophy, and specifically to what is certainly his most famous and influential work, the Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre of 1794/5. Though few philosophical classics cry out more loudly for commentary and explication than Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre, Hohler's new book is neither a commentary nor an introduction. Instead, it is a detailed study of severa…Read more
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13“The summit of Kantian speculation”. Fichte’s reception of the Third CritiqueAnuario Filosófico 52 (1): 113-144. 2019.
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12New perspectives on Fichte (edited book)Humanities Press. 1996.These original essays, never published before, suggest the breadth and richness of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophy and are signs of the contemporary effort to explore the relationship between his system of thought and current philosophical debates. Some of the issues discussed included the relationship between "theoretical" and "practical" reason; the philosophy of language; antifoundationalism; the juridical status of women; duties toward natural beings; and the political implications of th…Read more
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11Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes: Ein dialogischer Kommentar by Pirmin StekelerJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 554-556. 2015.
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11The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte (review)The Owl of Minerva 21 (2): 190-197. 1990.True to its title, this is a book with a plot. True to its subtitle, it is also a tightly focussed scholarly monograph, one which will undoubtedly serve as an authoritative reference work in its field for many years to come and which deserves to be read by anyone interested in the history of German philosophy “after Kant.” As readers of The Owl of Minerva are well aware, recent decades have witnessed an explosive revival of interest in classical German philosophy. Kant and Hegel studies now cons…Read more
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11Fichtes Lehre vom Anstoß, Nicht-Ich und Ding an sich in der Grundlage der gesamten WissenschaftslehreFichte-Studien 10 175-189. 1997.
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10Über die Unhaltbarkeit und die Unentbehrlichkeit des Skeptizismus bei FichteFichte-Studien 5 7-19. 1993.
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10Becoming Who One Is: Notes On Schopenhauer As EducatorNew Nietzsche Studies 2 (3/4): 1-25. 1998.
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10Vom Idealismus zum Existenzialismus DirettissimaFichte-Studien 22 171-192. 2003.Seit vielen Jahren schon behaupte ich gelegentlich vor Freunden, Kollegen und Studenten, daß die frühe Wissenschaftslehre und Sartres Existentialismus, ungeachtet ihrer offensichtlichen Unterschiede, viele Gemeinsamkeiten aufweisen und daß es möglich sei, von der ersteren zur letzteren auf mehr oder weniger direktem Wege zu gelangen: »Direttissima« sozusagen. Die folgenden Bemerkungen stellen nun den Versuch meinerseits dar, die Gründe für diese eher oberflächlichen Behauptung nachzugehen. Mit d…Read more
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9Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2013._New perspectives on Fichte’s best known and most popular work._
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9Nietzsche and the Political (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (1): 177-178. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Nietzsche and the Political by Daniel W. ConwayDaniel BreazealeDaniel W. Conway. Nietzsche and the Political. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. xii + 163. Cloth, $65. Paper, $16.95.This brief but stimulating work is a vigorous effort to defend the importance of Nietzsche as a “political” thinker. In order to make this case, Conway has to fight on two fronts: simultaneously rebutting the views of the many contemporary interpret…Read more
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9German Philosophy, 1670-1860: The Legacy of Idealism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (1): 110-112. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 42.1 (2004) 110-112 [Access article in PDF] Terry Pinkard. German Philosophy, 1670-1860: The Legacy of Idealism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 382. Cloth, $65.00. Paper, $23.00. In one respect, the story related in Terry Pinkard's new book on German idealism is a very old-fashioned one of the "from Kant to Hegel" sort, inasmuch as Hegel's system is here presented as the logic…Read more
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9Two Cheers for Post-Kantianism: A Response to Karl AmeriksInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 46 (2): 239-259. 2003.Karl Ameriks has recently devoted an entire volume to defending what he calls "orthodox" Kantianism against what he judges to be the "errors" of such post-Kantian idealists as K. L. Reinhold and J. G. Fichte and to exposing what he claims is the frequently unnoticed but always deleterious influence of post-Kantianism upon certain prominent strands of contemporary philosophy. In response, this paper challenges Ameriks' interpretation of Kantianism itself and of the "post-Kantian project", as well…Read more
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9Fichte: The System of Ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2005.Fichte's System of Ethics, published in 1798, is at once the most accessible presentation of its author's comprehensive philosophical project, The Science of Knowledge or Wissenschaftslehre, and the most important work in moral philosophy written between Kant and Hegel. Fichte's ethics integrates the discussion of our moral duties into the systematic framework of a transcendental theory of the human subject. Its major philosophical themes include the practical nature of self-consciousness, the r…Read more
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9New essays in Fichte's Foundation of the entire doctrine of scientific knowledge (edited book)Humanity Books. 2001.No Marketing Blurb
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8After Jena: New Essays on Fichte's Later Philosophy (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2008.The career of J. G. Fichte, a central figure in German idealism and in the history of philosophy, divides into two distinct phases: the first period, in which he occupied the chair of critical philosophy at the University of Jena ; and the following period, after he left Jena for Berlin. Due in part to the inaccessibility of the German texts, Fichte scholarship in the English-speaking world has tended to focus on the Jena period, neglecting the development of this major thinker's mature developm…Read more
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8Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1997.The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduc…Read more
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8The fate of Kantian freedom: One cheer (more) for ReinholdIn Violetta Stolz, Martin Bendeli & Marion Heinz (eds.), Wille, Willkür, Freiheit: Reinholds Freiheitskonzeption im Kontext der Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunders, De Gruyter. pp. 91-124. 2012.
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8Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered (edited book)SUNY Press. 2016.Essays on one of Fichte's best known and most controversial works. One of J. G. Fichte’s best-known works, Addresses to the German Nation is based on a series of speeches he gave in Berlin when the city was under French occupation. They feature Fichte’s diagnosis of his own era in European history as well as his call for a new sense of German national identity, based upon a common language and culture rather than “blood and soil.” These speeches, often interpreted as key documents in the rise of…Read more
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8J. G. Fichte: Review of Freidrich Heinrich Gebhard, On Ethical Goodness as Disinterested Benevolence(Gotha: Ettinger, 1792) (review)Philosophical Forum 32 (4): 297-310. 2001.
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7»Der Blitz der Einsicht« and »der Akt der Evidenz«: A Theme from Fichte’s Berlin Introductions to PhilosophyFichte-Studien 31 1-15. 2007.
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7Rights, Bodies, Recognition: New Essays on Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right (edited book)Routledge. 2006.The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's contributions in political theory as set out in his Foundations of Natural Right. The essays, which examine such issues as Fichte as a social contract theorist, his theory of gender relations and his theories on punishment and the criminal law among many o…Read more
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7Karl L. Reinhold: Korrespondenzausgabe der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bde. 2 und 3In Fred Rush & Jürgen Stolzenberg (eds.), Geschichte/History, De Gruyter. pp. 275-279. 2014.
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7Fichteans In StyriaIdealistic Studies 18 (1): 72-78. 1988.The first international Fichte conference was held a decade ago in Zwettl, Austria. The second convened this summer, once again in Austria, but this time in the village of Deutschlandsberg, pleasantly situated in the vine covered hill country south of Graz. The setting itself was remarkable, for the conference was held in an isolated twelfth-century castle perched high above the village. For six consecutive days in August some forty scholars from around the world took part in this extraordinary …Read more