Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (eds.), New Essays in Fichte's Foundation of the Entire Doctrine of Scientific Knowledge. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2001. 257 pp.

This collection of essays is the third to emerge from the meetings of the North American Fichte Society, and is based on the papers given at the meeting sponsored by the University of Kentucky at Lexington in May of 1995. It is another of only a small handful of secondary sources in English devoted entirely to Fichte's thought.

The contents are as follows:

  • Tom Rockmore, "Introduction"
  • Daniel Breazeale, "Inference, Intuition, and Imagination: On the Methodology and Method of the First Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Steven Hoeltzel, "Fichte's Deduction of Representation in the 1794-95 Grundlage"
  • Tom Rockmore, "Fichte on Deduction in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Michael Baur, "Self-Measure and Self-Moderation in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Arnold Farr, "Reflective Judgment and the Boundaries of Finite Human Knowledge: The Path Towards Fichte's 1794-95 Wissenschaftslehre"
  • C. Jeffery Kinlaw, "Imagination and Time in Fichte's Grundlage"
  • Günter Zöller, "Positing and Determining in Fichte's Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Jere Paul Surber, "Satz and Urteil in Kant's Critical Philosophy and Fichte's Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Pierre Kerszberg, "The Paradox of Primary Reflection"
  • Michael Vater, "Schelling's Vom Ich als Princip der Philosophie as a Reading of Fichte's Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Vladimir Zeman, "Between Kant and Fichte: Fichte's Foundation of the Entire Science of Knowledge"
  • Curtis Bowman, "Jacobi's Philosophy of Faith and Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre of 1794-95"
  • Dale Snow, "The Early Critical Reception of the 1794 Wissenschaftslehre"
  • George Seidel, "Hegel's Early Reaction to the Wissenschaftslehre: The Case of the Misplaced Adjective"
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