Fichte's 1804 Wissenschaftslehre

Benjamin Crowe is Lecturer in Philosophy at Boston University. He is the editor and translator of Fichte's Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812), also published by SUNY Press. Gabriel Gottlieb is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He is the editor of Fichte's Foundation of Natural Right: A Critical Guide.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations IntroductionGabriel Gottlieb and Benjamin D. CrowePart 1. The Continuity Question 1. The Absolute and the 1804 WissenschaftslehreC. Jeffery Kinlaw2. "You Can’t Get There from Here": Fichte’s (Unwritten) 1799 Review (nach der Principien der Wissenschaftslehre) of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Daniel Breazeale3. The First Principle in the Later Fichte: The (Not) "Surprising Insight" in the Fifteenth Lecture of the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Michael Lewin4. Fichte’s Reader and the Autopoiesis of the Wissenschaftslehre, 1794–1804Andrew J. MitchellPart 2. Key Concepts5. Into Death’s Lair: Truth, Appearance, and the Irrational Gap in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Matthew Nini6. Nothing Remains: Notes on Fichte’s "Irrational Gap" in the 1804 WissenschaftslehreF. Scott Scribner7. Pure Light and the Promethean Self of Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Kit Slover8. The Odyssey of the "Through" (das Durch) M. Jorge de Carvalho 9. The "We" of Speculative Philosophy Benjamin D. CrowePart 3. System and Idealism10. The Quintuple Quintuplicity of Forms of (Self-)Consciousness in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Emiliano Acosta11. Immanent Thinking and the Activity of Philosophizing in Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Angelica Nuzzo12. Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre: A Possible Reply to Schelling’s Bruno Michael Vater13. Fichte contra Idealism in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Michael Steinberg14. The Self-Justification of Fichte’s Philosophy Jacinto Rivera de Rosales†15. Blockchain as Fichtean Problem Adam Hankins16. Is Fichte a Kantian, a German Idealist, Both, or Neither? Tom RockmoreContributors Index

"This impressive essay collection offers a comprehensive window into Fichte's position and arguments in the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre and advances our understanding about its relation to his earlier work at Jena University. All students and scholars of Fichte will want to consult it." — Halla Kim, coeditor of Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism