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Presenting new critical perspectives on J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre, this volume of English articles 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 (1796-99) and the presentations of 1804 and 1805. Also included are new studies on the first principles of the particular sub-disciplines of Fichte’s system, such as the doctrines of aesthetics, nature, right, ethics, and history.

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Vorwort / Preface: Fichte’s First Principles and the Total System of the Wissenschaftslehre Beiträgerverzeichnis / Notes on Contributors Teil 1 / Part 1 Fichte’s Earliest Reflections on First Principles 1 Fichte’s First First Principles, in the Aphorisms on Religion and Deism (1790) and Prior  Jason Yonover 2 General Logic and the Foundational Demonstration of the First Principle in Fichte’s Eigene Meditationen and Early Wissenschaftslehre  David Sommer 3 The First Principle of Philosophy in Fichte’s 1794 Aenesidemus Review  Elise Frketich Teil 2 / Part 2 The First Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre 4 Why Is the First Principle of the Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre Foundational for Fichte’s Entire Wissenschaftslehre?  Alexander Schnell 5 Difference within Identity? Fichte’s Reevaluation of the First Principle of Philosophy in § 5 of the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre  Philipp Schwab 6 “The Subsequent Delivery of the Deduction” – Fichte’s Transformation of Kant’s Deduction of the Categories  Gesa Wellmann 7 From Being Reflexive to Absolute Reflection – Fichte’s Original Insight Reconsidered  Stefan Schick 8 The First Principle of the Wissenschaftslehre and the Logical Principle of Identity  Esma Kayar 9 Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichte’s Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre  G. Anthony Bruno 10 “Knowledge Is Existence” – Ascent to the First Principle in Fichte’s 1805 Erlangen Wissenschaftslehre  Robert G. Seymour Teil 3 / Part 3 The First Principles of the Sub-Disciplines of the Wissenschaftslehre 11 The Monogram of the “Sweet Songstress of the Night”: The Hovering of the Imagination as the First Principle of Fichte’s Aesthetics  Laure Cahen-Maurel 12 Fichte’s First Principle of Right  Michael Nance 13 On I-Hood as the Speculative Ground of Fichte’s Real Ethics  Kienhow Goh 14 The Role of First Principles in Fichte’s Philosophy of History  Pavel Reichl 15 Circumvolutions of the Mind: Fichte on First Principles and Transcendental Circuits  Carlos Zorrilla Piña Teil 4 / Part 4 Freie Beiträge 16 ‘Transcendental’ in Kant and Fichte: A Conceptual Shift and Its Philosophical Meaning  Elena Ficara 17 Fichtes Kolleg „Moral für Gelehrte“ – Jena 1794–1795: Zur Geschichte von „Über Geist und Buchstaben“  Ricardo Barbosa 18 Die gelehrte Bildung nach der göttlichen Idee in Über das Wesen des Gelehrten  Quentin Landenne 19 Fichte’s Original Insight Reviewed  Roberto Horácio Sá Pereira 20 Images de l’ absolu : Phénoménologie matérielle et phénoménologie fichtéenne  Frédéric Seyler Teil 5 / Part 5 Rezensionen Luis Fellipe Garcia, La philosophie comme Wissenschaftslehre. Le projet fichtéen d’ une nouvelle pratique du savoir  Antonella Carbone Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Die späten wissenschaftlichen Vorlesungen IV, 1: Transzendentale Logik 1 (1812). Neu herausgegeben von Hans Georg von Manz und Ives Radrizzani. Unter Mitarbeit von Erich Fuchs  Zhu Lei Thomas Sören Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Fichtes Geschlossener Handelsstaat. Beiträge zur Erschließung eines Anti-Klassikers  Konstantinos Masmanidis Register / Index

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      Publication Date: 08/04/2021
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      Book Synopsis
      Presenting new critical perspectives on J.G. Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre, this volume of English articles 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 (1796-99) and the presentations of 1804 and 1805. Also included are new studies on the first principles of the particular sub-disciplines of Fichte’s system, such as the doctrines of aesthetics, nature, right, ethics, and history.

      Table of Contents
      Vorwort / Preface: Fichte’s First Principles and the Total System of the Wissenschaftslehre Beiträgerverzeichnis / Notes on Contributors Teil 1 / Part 1 Fichte’s Earliest Reflections on First Principles 1 Fichte’s First First Principles, in the Aphorisms on Religion and Deism (1790) and Prior  Jason Yonover 2 General Logic and the Foundational Demonstration of the First Principle in Fichte’s Eigene Meditationen and Early Wissenschaftslehre  David Sommer 3 The First Principle of Philosophy in Fichte’s 1794 Aenesidemus Review  Elise Frketich Teil 2 / Part 2 The First Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre 4 Why Is the First Principle of the Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre Foundational for Fichte’s Entire Wissenschaftslehre?  Alexander Schnell 5 Difference within Identity? Fichte’s Reevaluation of the First Principle of Philosophy in § 5 of the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre  Philipp Schwab 6 “The Subsequent Delivery of the Deduction” – Fichte’s Transformation of Kant’s Deduction of the Categories  Gesa Wellmann 7 From Being Reflexive to Absolute Reflection – Fichte’s Original Insight Reconsidered  Stefan Schick 8 The First Principle of the Wissenschaftslehre and the Logical Principle of Identity  Esma Kayar 9 Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichte’s Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre  G. Anthony Bruno 10 “Knowledge Is Existence” – Ascent to the First Principle in Fichte’s 1805 Erlangen Wissenschaftslehre  Robert G. Seymour Teil 3 / Part 3 The First Principles of the Sub-Disciplines of the Wissenschaftslehre 11 The Monogram of the “Sweet Songstress of the Night”: The Hovering of the Imagination as the First Principle of Fichte’s Aesthetics  Laure Cahen-Maurel 12 Fichte’s First Principle of Right  Michael Nance 13 On I-Hood as the Speculative Ground of Fichte’s Real Ethics  Kienhow Goh 14 The Role of First Principles in Fichte’s Philosophy of History  Pavel Reichl 15 Circumvolutions of the Mind: Fichte on First Principles and Transcendental Circuits  Carlos Zorrilla Piña Teil 4 / Part 4 Freie Beiträge 16 ‘Transcendental’ in Kant and Fichte: A Conceptual Shift and Its Philosophical Meaning  Elena Ficara 17 Fichtes Kolleg „Moral für Gelehrte“ – Jena 1794–1795: Zur Geschichte von „Über Geist und Buchstaben“  Ricardo Barbosa 18 Die gelehrte Bildung nach der göttlichen Idee in Über das Wesen des Gelehrten  Quentin Landenne 19 Fichte’s Original Insight Reviewed  Roberto Horácio Sá Pereira 20 Images de l’ absolu : Phénoménologie matérielle et phénoménologie fichtéenne  Frédéric Seyler Teil 5 / Part 5 Rezensionen Luis Fellipe Garcia, La philosophie comme Wissenschaftslehre. Le projet fichtéen d’ une nouvelle pratique du savoir  Antonella Carbone Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Die späten wissenschaftlichen Vorlesungen IV, 1: Transzendentale Logik 1 (1812). Neu herausgegeben von Hans Georg von Manz und Ives Radrizzani. Unter Mitarbeit von Erich Fuchs  Zhu Lei Thomas Sören Hoffmann (Hrsg.), Fichtes Geschlossener Handelsstaat. Beiträge zur Erschließung eines Anti-Klassikers  Konstantinos Masmanidis Register / Index

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