Fichte's theory of subjectivity / Frederick Neuhouser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neuhouser, Frederick.

Series:

Modern European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb.

Subjectivity.

Concept of subjectivity.

Physical Description:

x, 180 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Summary:

This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The book explains Fichte's notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant's accounts of theoretical and practical reason. Fichte argues that the subject has a self-positing structure that distinguishes it from a thing or an object. Thus, the subject must be understood as an activity rather than a thing and is self-constituting in a way that an object is not. In the final chapter, Professor Neuhouser considers how this doctrine of the self-positing subject enables us to understand the possibility of the self's autonomy, or self-determination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-175) and index.

ISBN:

0521374332

0521399386

OCLC:

20824432