Wayne M. Martin, Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte's Jena Project. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xvi + 177 pp.

An interpretation of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre as formulated in the writings of his Jena period.

The contents are as follows:

Introduction

I. Parameters of the Jena Project

  1. Aims of a Philosophical Science
  2. Against Dogmatism
  3. Pipe Dreams and Nonthoughts: The Problems of Things in Themselves

II. Elements of a Theory of Objectivity

  1. Positing and Opposing: The Reinholdian Context
  2. A Method of Contradiction
  3. The Striving Doctrine and the Primacy of Practice

Conclusion

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