Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (eds.), Fichte: Historical Contexts/Contemporary Controversies. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books (formerly Humanities Press), 1994. 271 pp.

This collection of essays is drawn from the proceedings of the first North American Fichte Society conference held at Duquesne University in the spring of 1991. It is one of the few secondary sources in English devoted entirely to Fichte's thought.

The contents are as follows:

  • Tom Rockmore, "Introduction"
  • Rudolf A. Makkreel, "Fichte's Dialectical Imagination"
  • Thomas M. Seebohm, "Fichte's Discovery of the Dialectical Method"
  • Daniel Breazeale, "Circles and Grounds in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Alain Perrinjaquet, "Some Remarks Concerning the Circularity of Philosophy and the Evidence of Its First Principle in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Tom Rockmore, "Antifoundationalism, Circularity, and the Spirit of Fichte"
  • Jere Paul Surber, "The Historical and Systematic Place of Fichte's Reflections on Language"
  • Anthony N. Perovich, Jr., "Fichte and the Typology of Mysticism"
  • Robert R. Williams, "The Question of the Other in Fichte's Thought"
  • Frederick Neuhouser, "Fichte and the Relationship between Right and Morality"
  • Jean Grondin, "Leibniz and Fichte"
  • Michael G. Vater, "The Wissenschaftslehre of 1801-1802"
  • Wilhelm S. Wurzer, "Fichte's Parergonal Visibility"
  • Klaus Brinkmann, "Tugendhat on Fichte and Self-Consciousness"
  • Daniel Breazeale, "Bibliography [of English translations of Fichte and of Works in English about Fichte"
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