Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (eds.), New Perspectives on Fichte. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books (formerly Humanities Press), 1996. xvii + 233 pp.

This collection of essays is the second to emerge from the meetings of the North American Fichte Society, and is based on the papers given at the meeting held at the University of Denver in March of 1993. 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: Changing Perspectives on Fichte"
  • Günter Zöller, "Thinking and Willing in Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity"
  • Wayne M. Martin, "'Without a Striving, No Object is Possible': Fichte's Doctrine of the Primacy of Practice"
  • Daniel Breazeale, "Certainty, Universal Validity, and Conviction: The Methodological Primacy of Practical Reason within the Jena Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Jere Paul Surber, "J. G. Fichte and the 'Scientific' Reconstruction of Grammar"
  • Tom Rockmore, "Fichte's Antifoundationalism, Intellectual Intuition, and Who One Is"
  • Walter E. Wright, "Reading the 1804 Wissenschaftslehre"
  • Michael G. Vater, "Thought and Being: The Beginnings of the Wissenschaft{slehre} in Fichte and Hegel (1812)"
  • C. Jefferey Kinlaw, "The Being of Appearance: Absolute, Image, and the Trinitarian Structure of the 1813 Wissenschaftslehre"
  • George J. Seidel, "The Atheism Controversy of 1799 and the Christology of Fichte's Anweisung zum seligen Leben of 1806"
  • Alain Perrinjaquet, "Duties Concerning Natural Beings in Fichte's Practical Philosophy"
  • Daniel Morrison, "Women, Family, and State in Fichte's Philosophy of Freedom"
  • Ives Radrizzani, "Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy and Political Praxis"
  • Vladimir Zeman, "Appropriation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in Fichte's Second Introduction to the Wissenschaftslehre"
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