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2IntroductionIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered, Suny Press. pp. 1-20. 2016.
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2From Autonomy to Automata?In Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered, Suny Press. pp. 21-54. 2016.
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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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819FICHTEANA: Review of J.G. Fichte Research 22 (2022) (edited book). 2022."FICHTEANA Review of J.G. Fichte Research" is an online publication in English devoted to new scholarship on the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It publishes information and reviews of the latest Fichte editions, books, publications, conferences, and Calls for Papers. Originally founded by Daniel Breazeale in 1993, since issue 22 (2022), FICHTEANA has appeared in an expanded form with book reviews. It is co-edited by Daniel Breazeale and David W. Wood, with associate editor Kienhow Goh.
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2You Can’t Get There from HereIn Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. pp. 33-59. 2024.
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273FICHTEANA: Review of J.G. Fichte Research 23 (2023) (edited book). 2023.This issue 23 of FICHTEANA is dedicated to Daniel Breazeale, who passed away on 30 December 2023. "FICHTEANA Review of J.G. Fichte Research" is an annual online publication in English devoted to new scholarship on the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It publishes information and reviews of the latest Fichte editions, books, publications, conferences, and Calls for Papers. Originally founded by Daniel Breazeale in 1993, since issue 22 (2022), FICHTEANA has appeared in an expanded form with boo…Read more
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25Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental IdealismLexington Books. 2014.Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy
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You can't get there from here:" : Fichte's (unwritten) 1799 Review (nach der Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre (review)In Benjamin D. Crowe & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: essays on the "Science of knowing", State University of New York Press. 2024.
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10After 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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32Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Einführung in seine PhilosophieReview of Metaphysics 37 (2): 434-436. 1983.A surprising explosion of interest in J. G. Fichte's system of transcendental philosophy--the so-called Wissenschaftslehre or "Theory of Scientific Knowledge"--has occurred in recent decades. Whereas previous interest in Fichte centered primarily upon the early works which he published while in Jena and was concerned to establish his position on the mythical stairway stretching from the Critique of Pure Reason to the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, the most interesting recent work fo…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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31Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) Nova MethodoPhilosophical Review 103 (3): 585. 1994.
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The checkered reception of the Vocation of manIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. 2013.
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1Jumping the transcendental shark : Fichte's "Argument of belief" in Book II of die Bestimmung des Menschen and the transition from the earlier to the later WissenschaftslehreIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 199-224. 2013.
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Fichte's public "Discourses on method," 1794-1801 : a comparative studyIn Tom Rockmore & Daniel Breazeale (eds.), Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy, Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.
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Freedom and obligation : Kant, Reinhold, FichteIn James A. Clarke & Gabriel Gottlieb (eds.), Practical Philosophy From Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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14“The summit of Kantian speculation”. Fichte’s reception of the Third CritiqueAnuario Filosófico 52 (1): 113-144. 2019.
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2Fichte and the Path from “Formal” to “Material” FreedomIn Stefano Bacin & Owen Ware (eds.), Fichte’s System of Ethics: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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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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15Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.Johann Gottlieb Fichte is a widely known transcendental philosopher and obviously a thinker of the first rank. Yet contemporary interest in and evaluation of "transcendental philosophy" as well as the precise meaning of the terms and its relation to "transcendental method" remains unclear. With renewed attention to German idealism in general and to Fichte in particular, this timely collection of new papers will be of interest to anyone concerned with transcendental philosophy, German idealism, m…Read more
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30In Defense of ConscienceFichte-Studien 45 113-132. 2018.First in the Phenomenology and then in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Hegel rejects Fichte’s notion of conscience on the grounds that it leads to despair. He also criticizes Fichtean conscience as purely “formal” and “abstract” and compatible with any content, which it can obtain only arbitrarily from the manifold of one’s natural drives and inclinations. For Hegel, there is an unresolvable tension between the claimed “universality” of a conscientious deed and the natural particularity…Read more
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46Fichte, Skepticism, and the ‘Agrippan Trilemma'Fichte-Studien 44 3-16. 2017.In his recent All or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism, Paul Franks defends Maimonian skepticism and explicitly criticizes Fichte’s response to the same. I argue that Franks’ interpretation of Fichte’s response to skepticism is fundamentally flawed in that it ignores or misinterprets the critically important practical/moral dimension of Fichte’s response. I also challenge Franks’ interpretation of the Jena Wissenschaftslehre as a »derivation holi…Read more
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44Philosophy and “the method of fictions”: Maimon's proposal and its criticsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 702-716. 2018.Salomon Maimon argued forcefully for the indispensability of what he called “the method of fictions” in mathematics and physics, but also in philosophy. This last claim provoked critical responses from G. E. Brastberger, G. E. Schultze, and K. L. Reinhold. This paper offers a brief exposition of Maimon's “method of fictions” and an analysis of his response to critics of his claims concerning the employment of this method within philosophy.
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6Donald Phillip Verene, "Hegel's Recollection, A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 25 (4): 608. 1987.
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51Thomas P. Hohler, "Imagination and Reflection: Intersubjectivity. Fichte's "Grundlage" of 1794" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 (4): 487. 1984.
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40Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2): 268-270. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.2 (2002) 268-270 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 Anthony J. La Vopa. Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 449. Cloth, $54.95. Few philosophers have led more dramatic lives than J. G. Fichte, whose serendipitous ascent from rural poverty to academic celebrity…Read more
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9J. G. Fichte: Review of Freidrich Heinrich Gebhard, On Ethical Goodness as Disinterested Benevolence(Gotha: Ettinger, 1792) (review)Philosophical Forum 32 (4): 297-310. 2001.