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JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE (1762 - 1814)

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  • Bild, Bildung, Einbildung chez Fichte, Villa Lanna, Prague, du 26 au 28 février, 2009
  • Fichte Workshop, Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism Research Project, University College, London, March 10, 2006

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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  • Anthologies:

    • Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre, and Other Writings, 1797-1800.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.

    • Early Philosophical Writings, 1790-1799.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

    • The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.  Trans. W. Smith.  2 vols.  London: Chapman, 1848/9.  Rpt. London: Thoemmes, 1999.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Die Wissenschaftslehre, in ihrem allgemeinen Umrisse dargestellt.  1810.

      • "The Science of Knowledge in its General Outline."  Trans. Walter E. Wright.  Idealistic Studies 6 (1976): 106-117.

    • Reden an die deutsche Nation.  1808.

      • Addresses to the German Nation.  Ed. Gregory Moore.  Cambridge: CUP, 2009.

      • Addresses to the German Nation.  Trans. R. F. Jones and G. H. Turnbull.  Chicago: Open Court, 1922.  Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.

    • Die Anweisung zum sieligen Leben, oder auch die Religionslehre.  1806.

      • "The Way Towards the Blessed Life; or, the Doctrine of Religion."  The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.  Trans. W. Smith.  2 vols.  London: Chapman, 1848/9.  Rpt. London: Thoemmes, 1999. 

    • Der Grundzüge des gegewärtigen Zeitalters.  1806.

      • "The Characteristics of the Present Age."  The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.  Trans. W. Smith.  2 vols.  London: Chapman, 1848/9.  Rpt. London: Thoemmes, 1999. 

    • Über des Wesen des Gelehrten, und seine Erscheinungen im Gebiete der Freiheit.  1806.

      • "On The Nature of the Scholar and its Manifestations."  The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte.  Trans. W. Smith.  2 vols.  London: Chapman, 1848/9.  Rpt. London: Thoemmes, 1999. 

    • 1804.

      • The Science of Knowing: J. G. Fichte's 1804 Lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre.  Trans. Walter E. Wright.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.

    • Sonnenklarer Bericht an das größere Publikum über das eigentliche Wesen der neuesten Philosophie. Ein Versuch, die Leser zum Verstehen zu zwingen.  1801.

      • "A Crystal Clear Report to the General Public Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy: an Attempt to Force the Reader to Understand."  Trans. John Botterman and William Rasch.  Philosophy of German Idealism.  Ed. Ernst Behler.  New York: Continuum, 1987.  39-118.

    • Die Bestimmung des Menschen.  1800.

      • The Vocation of Man.  Trans. Peter Preuss.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987.

    • Grundlage des Naturrechts nach Principien der Wissenschaftslehre.  1796/1797.

      • Foundations of Natural Right.  Ed.  Frederick Neuhouser.  Trans. Michael Baur.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.

    • Das System der Sittenlehre nach den Principien der Wissenschaftslehre.  1798.
      • The System of Ethics according to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale and Günter Zöller.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
      • The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge.  Trans. A. E. Kroeger.  London: Kegan Paul, 1897.
    • Ueber den Grund unsers Glaubens an eine göttliche Weltregierung.  1798.
      • "On the Basis of our Belief in a Divine Governance of the World."  Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings, 1797-1800.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994.
    • 1796 / 1797.
      • The Science of Rights.  Trans. A. E. Kroeger.  London: Trübner & Co., 1889.  Rpt. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
    • Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo.  1796 / 1799. 
      • Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

    • Grundriß des Eigenthümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre in Rücksicht auf das theoretische Vermögen.  1795.

      • "Outline of the Distinctive Character of the Wissenschaftslehre with respect to the Theoretical Faculty."  Early Philosophical Writings, 1790-1799.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.

    • 1795.

      • "On the Linguistic Capacity and the Origin of Language."  Language and German Idealism: Fichte's Linguistic Philosophy.  Trans. and Ed. Jere Paul Surber.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996.

    • Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre.  1794 / 1795.  2nd Ed. 1802. 

      • "Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge."  The Science of Knowledge, with the First and Second Introductions.  Trans. Peter Heath and John Lachs.  New York: Appleton-Century, 1970.  Rpt. Cambridge: CUP, 1982.

    • Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten.  1794.
      • "Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation."  Trans. Daniel Breazeale. 
        • Early Philosophical Writings, 1790-1799.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
        • Philosophy of German Idealism.  Ed. Ernst Behler.  New York: Continuum, 1987.  1-38.
    • Ueber den Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre.  1794.  2nd Ed. 1798.
      • "Concerning the Concept of the Wissenschaftslehre."  Early Philosophical Writings, 1790-1799.  Trans. and ed. Daniel Breazeale.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
    • 1794.
      • "On the Spirit and the Letter in Philosophy."  Trans. Elizabeth Rubenstein.  German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Hegel.  Ed. David Simpson.  Cambridge: CUP, 1984.

    • 1793.

      • "Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, who have Oppressed it until Now."  Trans. Thomas E. Wartenberg.  What is Enlightenment?  Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.  Ed. James Schmidt.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1996

    • Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung.  1792 / 1793.

      • Attempt at a Critique of all Revelation.  Trans. Garrett Green.  Cambridge: CUP, 1978. 

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

  • Anthologies:

    • Breazeale, Daniel, and Thomas Rockmore, eds.  Rights, Bodies And Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

    • Breazeale, Daniel, and Thomas Rockmore, eds.  New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena "Wissenschaftslehre".  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2002.

    • Breazeale, Daniel, and Thomas Rockmore, eds.  New Essays in Fichte's Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge.  Amherst, NY: Humanity, 2001.

    • Breazeale, Daniel, and Tom Rockmore, eds.  New Perspectives on Fichte.  Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1996.

    • Breazeale, Daniel, and Thomas Rockmore, eds.  Fichte: Historical Contexts / Contemporary Controversies.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994.

    • Surber, Jere Paul, ed.  Language and German Idealism: Fichte's Linguistic Philosophy.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996.

  • Selected Individual Works:

    • Adamson, Robert.  Fichte.  Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1881.

    • Beiser, Frederick C.  "Fichte's Critique of Subjectivism."   German Idealism: the Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801.  Cambriudge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002.

      •   217-345.

    • Beiser, Frederick C.  "Philosophy and Politics in Fichte's 1794 Wissenschaftslehre."  Enlightenment, Revolution and Romanticism: the Genesis of Modern Political Thought, 1790-1800.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.  57-83.

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    • Bowman, Curtis.  "Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge."  Central Works of Philosophy.  Volume 3 of The Nineteenth Century.  Ed. John Shand.  Chesham: Acumen, 2005. 

    • Brezeale, Daniel.  "Check or Checkmate?  On the Finitude of the Fichtean Self."  The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy.  Ed. Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.  87-114.

    • Breazeale, Daniel.  "Fichte and Schelling: the Jena Period."  The Age of German Idealism.  Vol. 6 of The Routledge History of Philosophy.  Ed. Robert Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins.  London: Routledge, 1993.  138-180.

    • Darwall, Stephen.  "Fichte and the Second-Person Standpoint."  Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus 3 (2006): 91-113.

    • Everett, Charles Caroll.  Fichte's Science of Knowledge: a Critical Exposition.  Chicago: Griggs, 1884.

    • Hausheer, Roger.  "Fichte and Schelling."  German Philosophy since Kant.  Ed. Anthony O'Hear.  Cambridge: CUP, 1999.  1-24.

    • Henrich, Dieter.  "Fichte."  Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2003.  157-276.

    • Horstmann, Rolf-Peter.  "The Early Philosophy of Fichte and Schelling."  Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.  Ed. Karl Ameriks.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  117-141.

    • La Vopa, Anthony J.  Fichte: the Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799.  Cambridge: CUP, 2001.

    • Martin, Wayne.  Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte's Jena Project.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.

    • Neuhoser, Frederick.  Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity.  Cambridge: CUP, 1990.

    • Rockmore, Tom.  "Fichte's Idealism"  The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Glendenning.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1999.  45-56.

    • Rockmore, Tom.  Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.

    • Seidel, George.  Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1794: a Commentary on Part I.  West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1993.

    • Siep, Ludwig.  "Fichte."  A Companion to Continental Philosophy.  Ed. Simon Critchley and William R. Schroeder.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  57-67.

    • Surber, Jere Paul, ed.  Language and German Idealism: Fichte's Linguistic Philosophy.  Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996.

    • Williams, Robert R.  Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1992.

    • Wood, Alan.  "Fichte's Intersubjective 'I.'"  Inquiry 49.1 (2006): 62-79.

    • Zoller, Gunter.  Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy : The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

    • Zoller, Gunter.  "German Realism: the Self-Limitation of Idealist Thinking in Fichte, Schelling, and Schopenhauer."  Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.  Ed. Karl Ameriks.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  200-218.

    • Zoller, Gunter.  "An Eye for an I: Fichte's Transcendental Experiment."  Figuring the Self: Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical German Philosophy.  Ed. David E. Klemm and Gunter Zoller.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.  73-95.

    • Zoller, Gunter.  "Original Duplicity: the Ideal and the Real in Fichte's Transcendental Theory of the Subject."  The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy.  Ed. Karl Ameriks and Dieter Sturma.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1995.  115-130.

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