Fichte's Vocation of man : new interpretive and critical essays / edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Breazeale, Daniel.

Rockmore, Tom, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814. Bestimmung des Menschen.

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb.

Human beings.

Faith.

Bestimmung des Menschen (Fichte, Johann Gottlieb).

Physical Description:

xi, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

Summary:

Written for a general audience during a period of intense controversy in the German philosophical community, J. G. Fichte's short book The Vocation of Man (1800) is both an introduction to and a defense of his philosophical system, and is one of the best-known contributions to German Idealism. This collection of new essays reflects a wide and instructive variety of philosophical and hermeneutic approaches, which combine to cast new light upon Fichte's familiar text. The contributors highlight some of the overlooked complexities and implications of The Vocation of Man and situate it firmly within the intellectual context within which it was originally written, relating it to the positions of Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Schlegel, Jacobi, and others. In addition, the essays relate the text to issues of contemporary concern such as the limits of language, the character of rational agency, the problem of evil, the relation of theoretical knowledge to practical belief, and the dialectic of judgment. Book jacket.

Contents:

The checkered reception of the Vocation of man / Daniel Breazeale

An other and better world : Fichte's the Vocation of man as a theologico-political treatise / Günter zöller

Fichte's philosophical Bildungsroman / Benjamin Crowe

Bestimmung as Bildung : on reading Fichte's Vocation of man as a Bildungsroman / Elizabeth Millán

Knowledge teaches us nothing : the Vocation of man as textual initiation / Michael Steinberg

J.G. Fichte's Vocation of man : an effort to communicate / Yolanda Estes

Interest : an overlooked protagonist of Book I of Fichte's Bestimmung des Menschen / Mário Jorge de Almeida Carvalho

The dialectic of judgment and the Vocation of man / Wayne Martin

The traction of the world, or Fichte on practical reason and the Vocation of man / Tom Rockmore

Fichte's conception of infinity in the Bestimmung des Menschen / David W. Wood

Intersubjectivity and the communality of our final end in Fichte's Vocation of man / Kien-How Goh

Evil and moral responsibility in the Vocation of man / Jane Dryden

Jumping the transcendental shark : Fichte's "Argument of belief" in Book II of die Bestimmung des Menschen and the transition from the earlier to the later Wissenschaftslehre / Daniel Breazeale

Determination and freedom in Kant and in Fichte's Bestimmung des Menschen / Angelica Nuzzo

There is in nature an original thinking power, just as there is an original formative power : on a claim from Book one of the Vocation of man / Violetta L. Waibel

Erkenntnis and interesse : Schelling's system of transcendental idealism and Fichte's Vocation of man / Michael Vater

Faith and knowledge and Vocation of man : a comparison between Hegel and Fichte / Marco Ivaldo

The vocation of postmodern man : why Fichte now? again? / Arnold Farr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1438447639

9781438447636

OCLC:

810442728

Publisher Number:

99957460663