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Matters of spirit : J.G. Fichte and the technological imagination / F. Scott Scribner.
LIBRA B2849.I4 S37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scribner, F. Scott.
- Series:
- American and European philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814.
- Fichte, Johann Gottlieb.
- Imagination.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- "An interpretation of the philosophy of J.G. Fichte. Examines the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- An introduction to the crisis of spirit : technology and the Fichtean imagination
- Technology and truth : representation and the problem of the third term
- Spirit and the technology of the letter
- The spatial imagination : affect, image, and the critique of representational consciousness
- Subtle matter and the ground of intersubjectivity
- The aesthetic of influence
- The first displacement : from subjectivity to being
- The second displacement : from a metaphysical to a technological imagination.
- Notes:
- "Earlier versions of this work were also tested in the form of conference presentations at the North American Fichte Society"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271036212
- 0271036214
- OCLC:
- 435918174
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