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"Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, or The Science of Knowing, consists of a series of lectures he delivered in his Berlin home to members of the city's political and cultural elite in 1804. The lectures mark a dramatic shift in the terminology and methodology he uses to explore the nature of knowledge and reality as presented in his philosophical system, the Wissenschaftslehre. Although not published during his lifetime, Fichte's 1804 lectures provide a systematic update to his philosophy of knowledge and being, which was only hinted at in print in popular presentations like Characteristics of the Present Age (1805) and The Way Towards the Blessed Life (1806). In fact, these lectures contain Fichte's first public articulation of his philosophical position in the wake of the professional disaster of the ""atheism controversy."" This volume of new essays not only offers readers novel interpretations of the lectures but also introduces and clarifies key concepts, debates the relationship of the lectures to Fichte’s Jena presentation of the Wissenschaftslehre, and examines issues related to his method and system of idealism."

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Author:   Benjamin D. Crowe ,  Gabriel Gottlieb
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438495941

ISBN 10:   1438495943
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   02 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Gabriel Gottlieb and Benjamin D. Crowe Part 1. The Continuity Question 1. The Absolute and the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre C. Jeffery Kinlaw 2. “You Can’t Get There from Here”: Fichte’s (Unwritten) 1799 Review (nach der Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Daniel Breazeale 3. The First Principle in the Later Fichte: The (Not) “Surprising Insight” in the Fifteenth Lecture of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Michael Lewin 4. Fichte’s Reader and the Autopoiesis of the Wissenschaftslehre, 1794–1804 Andrew J. Mitchell Part 2. Key Concepts 5. Into Death’s Lair: Truth, Appearance, and the Irrational Gap in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Matthew Nini 6. Nothing Remains: Notes on Fichte’s “Irrational Gap” in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre F. Scott Scribner 7. Pure Light and the Promethean Self of Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Kit Slover 8. The Odyssey of the “Through” (das Durch) M. Jorge de Carvalho 9. The “We” of Speculative Philosophy Benjamin D. Crowe Part 3. System and Idealism 10. The Quintuple Quintuplicity of Forms of (Self-)Consciousness in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Emiliano Acosta 11. Immanent Thinking and the Activity of Philosophizing in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Angelica Nuzzo 12. Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: A Possible Reply to Schelling’s Bruno Michael Vater 13. Fichte contra Idealism in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Michael Steinberg 14. The Self-Justification of Fichte’s Philosophy Jacinto Rivera de Rosales† 15. Blockchain as Fichtean Problem Adam Hankins 16. Is Fichte a Kantian, a German Idealist, Both, or Neither? Tom Rockmore Contributors Index

Reviews

"""This impressive essay collection offers a comprehensive window into Fichte's position and arguments in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre and advances our understanding about its relation to his earlier work at Jena University. All students and scholars of Fichte will want to consult it."" — Halla Kim, coeditor of Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism"

Author Information

Benjamin Crowe is Lecturer in Philosophy at Boston University. He is the editor and translator of Fichte's Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812), also published by SUNY Press. Gabriel Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He is the editor of Fichte's Foundation of Natural Right: A Critical Guide.

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