Fichte in the Americas

María Jimena Solé is a researcher at the Argentinean National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a professor of History of Modern Philosophy in the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is a founding member of the Latin American Fichte Society (ALEF) and has been an elected member of the Board of the Internationale J. G. Fichte-Gesellschaft since 2018.Elizabeth Millán Brusslan is a professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. She teaches and publishes in the areas of Latin American philosophy, early German Romanticism, and German Idealism. She is on the editorial board of the Internationales Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte Forschungszentrum.

• ForewordNotes on ContributorsPART 1: Fichte and the Current Debates in the Americas1 The Reception, Development, and Application of J. G. Fichte’s Account of Gender, Marriage, and Family in the AmericasYolanda Estes2 Et in America ego. Fichte’s Liberal and Egalitarian Critique of Colonization, Servitude, and SlaveryGünter Zöller3 Triple Fichtean Revolution: Notes to a Freer Latin-American Thinkingbr/>Thiago S. Santoro4 Modernity and Its Peripheries: Originary Existence and Decolonization of Thought in Light of Fichte’s Late WorkManuel Tangorra5 Intersubjectivity, Common Consciousness, and the Death of the MilkmanFrancisco Augusto de Moraes Prata GasparPART 2: Fichte’s Spirit at the Foundation of the American Independent Nations6 Echoes and Reverberations: Fichte’s Voice in the Independence of South American CountriesVirginia López-Domínguez7 Fichte, Progress, and the Rise of Positivism in Latin AmericaElizabeth Millán Brusslan8 Philosophy and Emancipation: Fichte’s Spirit in Alberdi’s LetterMaría Jimena Solé9 Fichte and the Democratic Self According to Walt WhitmanFederico Vicum10 An Accomplice Reading of Fichte from the Other Side. Towards a Real Independence of Latin AmericaMarco Rampazzo Bazzan11 “Still Fichte”: Individual, State, and Democracy in J.D. Perón’s Organized CommunitySantiago NápoliPART 3: Fichte’s Reception, Influence and Appropriation by American Thinkers12 Raimundo de Farias Brito, Kritiker des Positivismus zwischen Fichte und JacobiChristian Klotz13 Fichte’s Metaphysics in Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol. Continuities around Pilgrim SubjectivityLucas Damián Scarfia14 Fichte and RojasAlberto Sandoval15 Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free SpiritsMaría Paz Lamas16 Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of ModernityMariano Gaudio17 The Spirit between Two Continents. Fichte in Turin, in São PauloGiorgia CecchinatoAppendix: Pragmatismus als Idealismus. Peirce, Fichte und der radikale Anti-CartesianismusJakub Kloc-KonkolowiczIndex