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This volume of 23 previously unpublished essays explores the relationship between the philosophy of J.G. Fichte and that of other leading thinkers associated with German Idealism and the early Romantic movement. Several papers explore the broader question of Fichte's relationship and contribution to "German idealism" and "German romanticism" in general, while others offer comparative studies of the relationship between Fichte's writings and those of Leibniz, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Schleiermacher, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Taken collectively, this set of essays provides anglophone readers with a new and historically accurate understanding of the origin, development, and reception of Fichte's philosophy in the context of its own era and in relationship to the most important intellectual movements of the time. The authors include both well established and internationally recognized experts in their fields as well as younger scholars with fresh and challenging perspectives to offer. This volume proposes a new interpretation of the history of German idealism in general and of the place therein of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. It emphasizes the intimate connection between "transcendental idealism" and "German romanticism" and shows how developments within each of these intellectual movements reflected and in turn influenced developments within the other. Finally, it sheds new light on Fichte's own philosophical development and does so by relating the various stages of his writings to other contemporary movements and authors.
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Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism Fichte-Studien-Supplementa Band 24 im Auftrage der Internationalen Johann-Gottlieb-Fichte-Gesellschaft in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici herausgegeben von Helmut Girndt (Duisburg) Wolfgang Janke (Wuppertal) Wolfgang H. Schrader (†) (Siegen) Hartmut Traub (Mülheim a. d. Ruhr) Edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism Amsterdam - New York, NY 2010 Fichte-Studien-Supplementa Die Supplementa zu den Fichte-Studien präsentieren Forschungen zur Geschichte und Systematik der Transzendentalphilosophie. Es werden in diesem Rahmen umfangreichere Untersuchungen veröffentlicht, z.B. Monographien, Dissertationen und Habilitationsschriften, die dem Verständnis der Transzendentalphilosophie dienen oder ihre Erneuerung und Weiterentwicklung voranbringen können. Photo: akg-images Nr:223193 1-G33-I1803-B Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; 1749-1832. - “Weimar 1803” (Goethe, middle, with the Humboldt brothers, Wieland, Niebuhr, Schleiermacher, Herder, Gauss, W. von Schlegel, Iffland, Schiller, Klinger, Tieck, Jean Paul, Pestalozzi etc. Print, later colouring, after the painting, 1884, by Otto Knille (1832-98), form. Berlin, Universitaetsbibliothek. Typographie und Satz: Christoph Asmuth (Berlin) The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN-13: 978-90-420-3011-4 E-Book ISBN: 978-90-420-3012-1 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam-New York, NY 2010 Printed in The Netherlands Table of Contents Daniel Breazeale Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 Part I. In the Wake of Kant Tom Rockmore Fichte, German Idealism and the Thing in Itself ................................................................ 9 Nectarios Limnatis Fichte and the Problem of Logic: Positioning the Wissenschaftslehre in the Development of German Idealism ...................................................................................... 21 Daniel Breazeale Doing Philosophy: Fichte vs.