Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (eds.), New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2002. xviii + 360 pp.

This collection of essays is the fourth to emerge from the meetings of the North American Fichte Society, and is based on the papers given at the meeting held at Marquette in March of 1997. It is another of only a small handful of secondary sources in English devoted entirely to Fichte's thought.

The contents are as follows:

  • Daniel Breazeale, "Introduction: On the 'Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre,' 1796-1799"
  • Klaus Brinkmann, "The Deduction of Intersubjectivity in Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts"
  • Jean-Christoph Merle, "Fichte's Theory of Punishment: 'Out-Kanting' Kant in Criminal Law"
  • Hans-Jakob Wilhelm, "The 'Deduction of the Individual': Fichte's Efforts to 'Complete' the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Robert R. Williams, "The Displacement of Recognition by Coercion in Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrecht"
  • F. Scott Scribner, "The 'Subtle Matter' of Intersubjectivity in the Grundlage des Naturrechts"
  • Johannes Brachtendorf, "Toward a Completion of German Idealism: Fichte's Transition from his Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre to the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo"
  • Janet Roccanova, "First Steps: Lessons on Becoming a Philosopher from the Early Chapters of the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo"
  • Günter Zöller, "The Individuality of the I in Fichte's Second Jena Wissenschaftslehre, 1796-99"
  • C. Jeffery Kinlaw, "Reflection and Feeling and the Primacy of Practical Reason in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Angelica Nuzzo, "The Unity of Philosophy in Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo, 1798-99"
  • Daniel Breazeale, "Fichte's Philosophical Fictions"
  • Yolanda Estes, "Intellectual Intuition, the Pure Will, and the Categorical Imperative in the later Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Arnold Farr, "Fichte's Reformulation of the Categorical Imperative in the Wissenschaftslehre nova methodo and Das System der Sittenlehre"
  • Lon Nease, "The Severity of the Moral Law in Fichte's Science of Ethics"
  • Steve Hoeltzel, "Idealism and the Ground of Explanation: Fichte and Schelling, 1794-1807"
  • Curtis Bowman, "Fichte, Jacobi, and the Atheism Controversy"
  • Claude Piché, "The Place of Aesthetics in Fichte's Early System"
  • Ives Radrizzani, "The Place of the Vocation of Man in Fichte's Work"
  • Tom Rockmore, "Fichte, Representation, and the Copernican Revolution"
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