Full Description
This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte's philosophy. In addition to offering new researchers an authoritative introduction and orientation to Fichtean thought, the volume also surveys the main scholarly and philosophical controversies regarding Fichtean interpretation, and defends a range of philosophical theses in a way that advances the scholarly discussion. Fichte is the first major philosopher in the post-Kantian tradition and the first of the great German Idealists, but he was no mere epigone of Kant or precursor to Hegel. His work speaks powerfully and originally to a wide range of issues of enduring concern, and his many innovations importantly anticipate major developments, including absolute idealism, phenomenology, and existentialism. He is therefore not only a path-breaking thinker but also a pivotal figure in Western intellectual history. Wide-ranging, well-organised and timely, this key volume makes Fichte's work both accessible and relevant. It is essential reading for scholars, graduate researchers and advanced students interested in Fichte, German Idealism, and the history of nineteenth-century philosophy in the West.
Contents
1. Introduction: Fichte's Post-Kantian Project, Steven Hoeltzel.- Part I: Historical and Conceptual Context.- 2. Fichte's Life and Philosophical Trajectory, Yolanda Estes.- 3. The Precursor as Rival: Fichte in Relation to Kant, Günter Zöller.- 4. Fichte, German Idealism, and the Parameters of Systematic Philosophy, Andreas Schmidt.- Part II: Metaphilosophy and Method.- 5. Fichte on the Standpoint of Philosophy and the Standpoint of Ordinary Life, Halla Kim.- 6. Reflection, Metaphilosophy, and Logic of Action in the Science of Knowledge, Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel.- 7. Fichte's Anti-Dogmatism and the Autonomy of Reason, Kienhow Goh.- Part III: Transcendental Theory.- 8. Knowledge and Action: Self-Positing, I-Hood, and the Centrality of the Striving Doctrine, C. Jeffery Kinlaw.- 9. Fichte's Account of Reason and Rational Normativity, Steven Hoeltzel.- 10. Fichte's Relation I: Anstoß and Aufforderung, Gabriel Gottlieb.-Part IV: Ethical Theory.- 11. Fichte's Deduction of the Moral Law, Owen Ware.- 12. Freedom as an End in Itself: Fichte on Ethical Duties, Paul Guyer.- 13. Fichte on Freedom, Wayne Martin.- Part V: Political and Social Theory.- 14. Fichte on Property Rights and Coercion, Nedim Nomer.- 15. Fichte's Theory of the State in Foundations of Natural Right, James A. Clarke.- 16. Fichte's Concept of the Nation, David James.- 17. Fichte's Philosophy of History: Between A Priori Foundation and Material Development, Angelica Nuzzo.- Part VI: Metaphysics and Epistemology.- 18. Giving Shape to the Shapeless: Divine Incomprehensibility, Moral Knowledge, and Symbolic Representation, Benjamin D. Crowe.- 19. The Letter and the Spirit: Kant's Metaphysics and Fichte's Epistemology, Matthew C. Altman.- 20. Transcendental Ontology in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1804, Markus Gabriel.- Part VII: Repercussions.- 21. Heidegger's ModestFichteanism, Michael Stevenson.- 22. Fichte, Sartre, and Levinas on the Problem with the Problem of Other Minds, Cynthia D. Coe.- 23. Fichtean Selfhood and Contemporary Philosophy of Language: The Case of Transcendental Pragmatics, Michihito Yoshime.- 24. Conclusion: Complexity, Unity, Infinity, Steven Hoeltzel.
