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780FICHTEANA: 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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323SYMPHILOSOPHIE 3 (2021) - Science and Early German Romanticism (edited book)SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. 2021.This third 2021 issue of "SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism" contains a main dossier of new research articles guest edited by Leif Weatherby (New York University) and devoted to the topic of early German romanticism and science. In addition to the papers of this main section issue number 3 of SYMPHILOSOPHIE includes translations of primary sources and book reviews. All contents are freely available online.
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306SYMPHILOSOPHIE 4 (2022) - Cosmic Web: Hemsterhuis Among the German Romantics (edited book)SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. 2022.Issue number 4 of "SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism" is devoted to the Dutch philosopher François Hemsterhuis and 250th anniversary of the birth of the German romantics Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel. This fourth issue of the journal contains nearly 600 pages of new research articles, translations, review-essays, and book reviews. The main section on Hemsterhuis among the German Romantics was guest edited by Daniel Whistler (Royal Holloway, University of London)…Read more
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298The "Double Sense" of Fichte's Philosophical Language - Some Critical Reflections on the Cambridge Companion to FichteRevista de Estud(I)Os Sobre Fichte 15 1-12. 2017.The principal thesis in this review-essay is that the key linguistic terms in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre especially have two main meanings that appear at first sight to be almost in contradiction or opposed to each other. The reader of Fichte therefore has to work hard to overcome any apparent conflicts in the “double sense” of his philosophical terminology. Accordingly, I argue that Fichte’s linguistic method and use of language should be seen as part of his chief philosophical method of synth…Read more
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229FICHTEANA: 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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163Fichte-Studien 49 (2021) - The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2021.Fichte-Studien, volume 49 (Leiden: Brill/Rodopi Publishers, 8 April 2021), edited by David W. Wood, 471pp. Presenting new critical perspectives on J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre, this volume of articles in English by an international group of scholars addresses the topic of first principles in Fichte’s writings. Especially discussed are the central text of his Jena period, the 1794/95 Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre, as well as later versions like the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo…Read more
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137Fichte’s First Principles and the Total System of the WissenschaftslehreFichte-Studien 49 9-19. 2021.Editor's Preface to Fichte-Studien 49 (2021), "The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles", (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021): : IX-XIX. Also available on open-access. See the publisher's website.
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135Introduction: Friedrich Schiller, a German Idealist?Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 52. 2022.Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) is now regarded by many readers and scholars not simply as a poet, historian, or playwright, but as a genuine philosopher in his own right. The following research articles in French and English are devoted to understanding the relationship between Schiller’s philosophy and German idealism, especially some of the chief figures associated with the inception and extended development of this movement: Kant, Reinhold, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Lotze. In the last t…Read more
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113Book Review, J.G. Fichte, Transzendentale Logik I (1812) (review)Fichteana: Review of J.G. Fichte Research 22 21-31. 2022.
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108Les Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 52 (2022): Friedrich Schiller et l'idéalisme allemand / Friedrich Schiller and German Idealism (edited book)Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg / OpenEdition Journals. 2022.Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg 52 contains an Introduction and 9 new research articles in French & English on Friedrich Schiller's philosophy in relation to German Idealism. All fully available online on Open-Edition and as free e-book. Edited and introduced by Henny Blomme, Laure Cahen-Maurel, & David W. Wood. With contributions by Frederick C. Beiser, María del Rosario Acosta López, Cody Staton, Jeremy D. Hovda, Laure Cahen-Maurel, Quentin Landenne, Katia Hay, Louis Carré, and Charlo…Read more
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104Kant and the Power of Imagination by Jane Kneller (review)European Journal of Philosophy 17 (3): 464-468. 2009.No Abstract
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62The Philosophical Rupture Between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800-1802)State University of New York Press. 2012.Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out.
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44Novalis (1772–1801): "Beginning", "know thy self" and "when numbers and figures"Philosophical Forum 33 (3). 2002.
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38"Mathesis of the Mind": A Study of Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre and GeometryNew York/Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi (Brill Publishers). Fichte-Studien-Supplementa Vol. 29. 2012.This is an in-depth study of J.G. Fichte’s philosophy of mathematics and theory of geometry. It investigates both the external formal and internal cognitive parallels between the axioms, intuitions and constructions of geometry and the scientific methodology of the Fichtean system of philosophy. In contrast to “ordinary” Euclidean geometry, in his Erlanger Logik of 1805 Fichte posits a model of an “ursprüngliche” or original geometry – that is to say, a synthetic and constructivistic conception …Read more
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36From "Fichticizing" to "Romanticizing": Fichte and Novalis on the Activities of Philosophy and ArtFichte-Studien 41 247-278. 2014.
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21Exoteric & Esoteric: Methodological Reflections on Vol. 7 of the Rudolf Steiner Critical EditionCorrespondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism 3 111-126. 2015.
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18On the Spirit and Letter of Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy: A Critical Reading of Hartmut Traub's 'Philosophie und Anthroposophie'RoSE: Research on Steiner Education 4 (1): 181-201. 2013.
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18Novalis. Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine BrouillonState University of New York Press. 2007.The first English translation of Novalis’s unfinished notes for a universal science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon.
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17The 'Mathematical' Wissenschaftslehre: On a Late Fichtean Reflection of NovalisIn Dalia Nassar (ed.), The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 258-272. 2014.
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13Fichte's Conception of Infinity in the Bestimmung des MenschenIn Daniel Breazeale Tom Rockmore (ed.), Fichte’s Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 155-171. 2013.
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12A Scientific Bible: Novalis and the Encyclopedistics of NatureIn K. Van Berkel A. Vanderjagt (ed.), The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History, Peeters. pp. 167-180. 2006.
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5Jacobi's Philosophy of Faith in Fichte's 1794 WissenschaftslehreIn Alexander J. B. Hampton (ed.), Friedrich Jacobi and the end of the enlightenment: religion, philosophy, and reason at the crux of modernity, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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Visions d’une religion universelle: La Madone Sixtine de Raphaël et les cercles romantiques à DresdeIn Laure Cahen-Maurel Jean-Noël Bret (ed.), Caspar David Friedrich et le romantisme allemand, . pp. 109-130. 2018.
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Fichte's conception of infinity in the Bestimmung des MenschenIn Daniel Breazeale & Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, State University of New York Press. pp. 155-171. 2013.
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Un philosophe romantisé: la figure de Jacob Böhme dans le roman de Novalis 'Henri d’Ofterdingen'In Augustin Dumont Alexander Schnell (ed.), Imagination et réflexion. Nouvelles recherches philosophiques sur Novalis/ Einbildungskraft und Reflexion. Neue philosophische Untersuchungen über Novalis (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015), . pp. 131-148. 2015.
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Rudolf Steiner. The Riddles of Philosophy, Presented in an Outline of Their HistoryChadwick Library Edition, 2018. 2018.Rudolf Steiner. The Riddles of Philosophy, Presented in an Outline of Their History. Two Volumes, 645 pp. Originally translated by Fritz C. Koelln in 1973; translation substantially revised and corrected by David W. Wood (Great Barrington MA: Chadwick Library Edition, 2018).
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Universität BonnRegular Faculty (Part-time)
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 2009
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |