Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (17621814), a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. It explains Fichte's notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant's accounts of theoretical and practical reason.
Trade Review'[A] very substantial piece of scholarship which analyses a number of important historical and systematic issues with great clarity and perception. The presentation and treatment of the basic historical and philosophical issues is magisterial.' Raymond Geuss, University of Cambridge
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Origins of Fichte's theory; 2. The developments of Fichte's project from 1792 to 1799; 3. The self-positing subject and theoretical self-consciousness; 4. The self-positing subject and practical self-determination; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
