Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He is the translator of Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings and the author of numerous articles on Fichte and German idealism.

The publishing of this volume in English... provides us with a wealth of new material, not just about Fichte's development, but about the essentially Cartesian project that first gave rise to phenomenology in our own century.(International Philosophical Quarterly) Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all... it is readable.... This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar working in English at present, accompanied by a full, useful scholarly apparatus, likely to be of interest to Fichte scholars and all those concerned with the development of German idealism.(Review of Metaphysics)