Bloomsbury Handbook of Fichte

Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, USA. Her research focuses on German idealism, especially such figures as Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. She has published three books, and most recently edited Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: Cambridge Critical Guide (2019), The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacy (2019), and co-edited (with Kenneth R. Westphal) The Palgrave Hegel Handbook (2020).

An extraordinarily comprehensive collection of essays by many, if not most, of the world’s leading authorities on Fichte. A major and most welcome contribution to the scholarly exposition and critical interpretation of Fichte's entire philosophy, including the works of his later period. An essential resource for both beginning students and specialists in the field.

• Notes on ContributorsNote on Sources and Key to AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: About the Volume, Its Content, and Structure, Marina F. BykovaPart I: Fichte in Context and His Path to Transcendental Idealism 1. Fichte’s Life and Rise to Philosophical Prominence, Marina F. Bykova2. Fichte, Kant, and the Copernican Revolution, Tom Rockmore3. Fichte's Reception of Kant's Critique of Judgement, Sebastian GardnerPart II: The Jena Period (1794-1799) and the Jena System of Transcendental Idealism4. The Generation of Intuition and Representation through the Productive Imagination in the 1794/1795 Grundlage, Violetta L. Waibel5. Freedom’s Body: Fichte’s Account of Nature, Michael G. Vater6. Fichte’s Philosophy of Right, Gabriel Gottlieb7. Fichte’s Ethical Theory, Allen W. Wood8. The Development of Fichte’s Philosophy of Religion, Benjamin D. CrowePart III: The Berlin Period (1800-1814) and the Systematic Development of the Transcendental Philosophy9. Fichte’s Meditations: The Practical Reality of the “Real World” in The Vocation of Man, Matthew C. Altman10. The Transcendental Spinozism of Fichte’s 1804 Wissenschaftslehre, George Di Giovanni11. Down by Law: On the Structure of Fichte’s 1805 Wissenschaftslehre, Emiliano Acosta12. Systematic and Doctrinal Differences in Fichte’s Early and Late Wissenschaftslehre: From the I as Deed-Act to God as Schema, Rainer Schäfer13. Fichte’s Cosmopolitan Nationalism, David James14. Freedom, Right, and Law. Fichte's Late Political Philosophy, Günter Zöller15. Fichte’s Philosophy of History, Ives Radrizzani16. Fichte’s Conception of Bildung and His Proposal of University Reform, Marina BykovaPart IV: Substantive and Interpretative Questions and Key Concepts17. Wissenschaftslehre, Emiliano Acosta18. Fichte’s First Principle: Self-Positing and Gambit Normativity, Wayne M. Martin19. The Three Basic Principles (drei Grundsätze), Steven H. Hoeltzel20. Transcendental Method, Halla Kim21. Fact/Act (Tathandlung), Halla Kim22. Anstoß and Aufforderung (“Check” and “Summons”), Steven H. Hoeltzel23. The Ambivalence of Language, Ives Radrizzani24.Intellectual Intuition, C. Jeffery Kinlaw25.Fichte and Philosophy of Mind, C. Jeffery Kinlaw26.Freedom, Kienhow Goh27.Drive (der Trieb), Kienhow Goh28.Resistance (Widerstehende), Mário Jorge de Carvalho29.‘I,’ ‘You,’ and ‘We.’ Intersubjectivity, Recognition, and Summons, Mário Jorge de Carvalho30.Deduction of Right, James A. Clarke31.Separation of Right from Morality, James A. Clarke32.Are There Any Moral Rights For Fichte?, Nedim NomerPart V: The Reception and Influence of Fichte’s Philosophy 33. Fichte and the Emergence of Early German Romanticism, Elizabeth Millán Brusslan34. Fichte’s Response to Hegel in the Late Wissenschaftslehre, Faustino Fabbianelli35. Fichte and Phenomenology, Virginia López Domínguez36.Freedom and the Problem of Others: Fichte and Sartre on Human Freedom and Its Conditions, Arnold L. Farr37. The Thought of a Principle: Rödl's Fichteanism, G. Anthony Bruno38. Fichte and the Contemporary Debate about Speculative Realism, Isabelle Thomas-FogielPart VI: Timeline and ChronologyNotable Dates in Fichte’s LifeTimeline of Fichte’s Publications and LecturesIndex