Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation

Garrett Green is the Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College. His previous publications include Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (2000) and Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination (1989). He previously edited and translated Karl Barth's On Religion: The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion (2006). Allen Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Indiana University. His previous publications include Kantian Ethics (Cambridge, 2008), Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief (2002) and Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

• Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and translation; Dedication; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory of the will in preparation for a deduction of religion in general; 3. Deduction of religion in general; 4. Division of religion in general into natural and revealed; 5. Formal discussion of the concept of revelation in preparation for a material discussion of it; 6. Material discussion of the concept of revelation in preparation for a deduction of it; 7. Deduction of the concept of revelation from a priori principles of pure reason; 8. The possibility of the empirical datum presupposed in the concept of revelation; 9. The physical possibility of a revelation; 10. Criteria of the divinity of a revelation with regard to its possible content; 11. Criteria of the divinity of a revelation with regard to the possible presentation of this content; 12. Systematic order of these criteria; 13. The possibility of receiving a given appearance as divine revelation; 14. General overview of this critique; Concluding remark; Appendix: passages omitted in the second edition; Glossary; Index.

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