Philosophy of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Birgit Sandkaulen is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Research Center for Classical German Philosophy / Hegel-Archive at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Her research focuses especially on Hegel and Jacobi. She is the editor of Jacobi’s Correspondence and co-editor of a new “Digital Jacobi Lexicon” at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig. She has published several books on Jacobi, including Grund und Ursache. Die Vernunftkritik Jacobis (2000).

• PrefaceNote on TranslationList of AbbreviationsPart I. Leitmotifs1. Life and Work2. Jacobi’s “Spinoza and Antispinoza”3. Groundless Belief: A Philosophical Provocation4. Does Spirit have Ésprit? On the Figures of Soul, Spirit, and Reason in Jacobi’s Philosophy5. Between Spinoza and Kant: Jacobi on Freedom and Persons 6. That, What, or Who? Jacobi and the Discourse on Persons 7. Brother Henriette? Deconstructions of Friendship in Derrida and Jacobi 8. “I am and there are things outside me”. Overcoming the “Consciousness-Paradigm” with Jacobi’s Realism9. The “Tiresome Thing in Itself.” Kant – Jacobi – Fichte Part II. Critical Relations10. I-hood and Person: The Fichtean Aporia and the Debate with Jacobi11. Fichte’s Vocation of Man – A Convincing Response to Jacobi? 12. This Individual and No Other? On the Individuality of the Person in Schelling’s Freedom Essay 13. System and Temporality. Jacobi Contra Hegel and Schelling 14. Third Position of Thought Towards Objectivity: Immediate Knowing 15. Metaphysics or Logic? The Importance of Spinoza in Hegel’s Science of LogicBibliography Proof of first publication Index

Written in a lively and elegant style, this is the best book on Jacobi I know of. It will quickly become the standard place for English speakers to begin exploring Jacobi's thought; its treatment of his relation to Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling will transform the Anglo-American reception of classical German philosophy.