Fichte's Vocation of Man

Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the editor and translator of several volumes of Fichte's writings, including Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings and Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings. Tom Rockmore is McAnulty College Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He is the author of many books, including Kant and Phenomenology and In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. Together Breazeale and Rockmore have coedited many volumes, including Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right.

"…a welcome addition to the continuously expanding scholarly literature on Fichte. The volume can function as a comprehensive supplement—it contains seventeen essays—to the Vocation and is ideal for classroom use … a rich collection of essays which should be 'must-reading' for philosophers interested in the development of German Idealism and moral agency." — Review of Metaphysics

• Key to AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Checkered Reception of Fichte’s The Vocation of ManDaniel Breazeale1. "An Other and Better World": Fichte’s The Vocation of Man as a Theological-Political TreatiseGünter Zóller2. Fichte’s Philosophical BildungsromanBenjamin Crowe3. Bestimmung as Bildung: On Reading Fichte’s Vocation of Man as a BildungsromanElizabeth Millán4. Knowledge Teaches Us Nothing: The Vocation of Man as Textual InitiationMichael Steinberg5. J. G. Fichte’s Vocation of Man: An Effort to CommunicateYolanda Estes6. "Interest": An Overlooked Protagonist in Book I of Fichte’s Bestimmung des MenschenM. Jorge de Almeida Carvalho7. The Dialectic of Judgment and The Vocation of ManWayne Martin8. The Traction of the World, or Fichte on Practical Reason and the Vocation of ManTom Rockmore9. Fichte’s Conception of Infinity in the Bestimmung des MenschenDavid W. Wood10. Intersubjectivity and the Communality of Our Final End in Fichte’s Vocation of ManKien-How Goh11. Evil and Moral Responsibility in The Vocation of ManJane Dryden12. Jumping the Transcendental Shark: Fichte’s "Argument of Belief" in Book III of Die Bestimmung des Menschen and the Transition from the Earlier to the Later WissenschaftslehreDaniel Breazeale13. Determination and Freedom in Kant and in Fichte’s Bestimmung des MenschenAngelica Nuzzo14. "There is in nature an original thinking power, just as there is an original formative power." On a Claim from Book One of The Vocation of ManVioletta L.Waibel 15. Erkenntnis and Interesse: Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism and Fichte’s Vocation of ManMichael Vater16. Faith and Knowledge and Vocation of Man: A Comparison between Hegel and FichteMarco Ivaldo17. The Vocation of Postmodern Man: Why Fichte Now? Again!Arnold FarrIndex