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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first comprehensive history of Fichte’s reception in America, highlighting the existence of a long and strong tradition of Fichtean studies throughout the continent and demonstrating the centrality of Fichtean ideas in contemporary discussions of issues such as feminism, social criticism, and decolonial thought. Read and reinterpreted in the highly diverse circumstances across the American continent, Fichte’s ideas are presented in a radically new light, uncovering the Fichtean spirit of self-activity and autonomous thought in an American context.
Table of ContentsForeword Notes on Contributors PART 1: Fichte and the Current Debates in the Americas 1 The Reception, Development, and Application of J. G. Fichte’s Account of Gender, Marriage, and Family in the Americas Yolanda Estes 2 Et in America ego. Fichte’s Liberal and Egalitarian Critique of Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery Günter Zöller 3 Triple Fichtean Revolution: Notes to a Freer Latin-American Thinkingbr/> Thiago S. Santoro 4 Modernity and Its Peripheries: Originary Existence and Decolonization of Thought in Light of Fichte’s Late Work Manuel Tangorra 5 Intersubjectivity, Common Consciousness, and the Death of the Milkman Francisco Augusto de Moraes Prata Gaspar PART 2: Fichte’s Spirit at the Foundation of the American Independent Nations 6 Echoes and Reverberations: Fichte’s Voice in the Independence of South American Countries Virginia López-Domínguez 7 Fichte, Progress, and the Rise of Positivism in Latin America Elizabeth Millán Brusslan 8 Philosophy and Emancipation: Fichte’s Spirit in Alberdi’s Letter María Jimena Solé 9 Fichte and the Democratic Self According to Walt Whitman Federico Vicum 10 An Accomplice Reading of Fichte from the Other Side. Towards a Real Independence of Latin America Marco Rampazzo Bazzan 11 “Still Fichte”: Individual, State, and Democracy in J.D. Perón’s Organized Community Santiago Nápoli PART 3: Fichte’s Reception, Influence and Appropriation by American Thinkers 12 Raimundo de Farias Brito, Kritiker des Positivismus zwischen Fichte und Jacobi Christian Klotz 13 Fichte’s Metaphysics in Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol. Continuities around Pilgrim Subjectivity Lucas Damián Scarfia 14 Fichte and Rojas Alberto Sandoval 15 Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free Spirits María Paz Lamas 16 Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of Modernity Mariano Gaudio 17 The Spirit between Two Continents. Fichte in Turin, in São Paulo Giorgia Cecchinato Appendix: Pragmatismus als Idealismus. Peirce, Fichte und der radikale Anti-Cartesianismus Jakub Kloc-Konkolowicz Index
