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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2017
Print publication year:
2016
Online ISBN:
9781139027557
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139027557
Subjects:
History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Collection:
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) was the founding figure of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a branch of thought which grew out of Kant's critical philosophy. Fichte's work formed the crucial link between eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought and philosophical, as well as literary, Romanticism. Some of his ideas also foreshadow later nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in philosophy and in political thought, including existentialism, nationalism and socialism. This volume offers essays on all the major aspects of Fichte's philosophy, ranging from the successive versions of his foundational philosophical science or Wissenschaftslehre, through his ethical and political thought, to his philosophies of history and religion. All the main stages of Fichte's philosophical career and development are charted, and his ideas are placed in their historical and intellectual context. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Fichte currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Fichte.

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  • 2 - Fichte and the French Revolution
    pp 38-64
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Bibliography

Editions

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, Gesamtausgabe, ed. Lauth, Reinhard and others, 42 vols. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1962–2012).
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, Werke. 11 vols. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1973). Compiled reprint of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s nachgelassene Werke, ed. Immanuel Hermann Fichte, 3 vols. (Bonn: Adolph-Marcus 1834–35) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s sämmtliche Werke, ed. Immanuel Hermann Fichte, 8 vols. (Berlin: Veit & Comp., 1845–46).
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, Die späten wissenschaftlichen Vorlesungen (1809–1814), ed. von Manz, Hans Georg, Fuchs, Erich, Lauth, Reinhard, Radrizzani, Ives and Siegel, Martin, 6 vols. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2000 –).
Johann Gottlieb Fichte im Gespräch. Berichte der Zeitgenossen, ed. Fuchs, Erich, Lauth, Reinhard and Schieche, Walter, 6 vols. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1978–1992).
Johann Gottlieb Fichte in zeitgenössischen Rezensionen, ed. Fuchs, Erich, Jacobs, Wilhelm G. and Schieche, Walter, 4 vols. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1995).

English translations

Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation, ed. Wood, Allen, trans. Green, Garrett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
‘Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who Have Oppressed It Until Now (1793)’, trans. Wartenberg, Thomas E., in Schmidt, James (ed.), What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions (Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press, 1996).
‘J. G. Fichte: Review of Leonhard Creuzer, Skeptical Reflections on the Freedom of the Will (1793)’, trans. Breazeale, Daniel, The Philosophical Forum 32(4) (2001): 289–296.
‘J. G. Fichte: Review of Friedrich Heinrich Gebhard, On Ethical Goodness as Disinterested Benevolence (Gotha: Ettinger, 1792)’, trans. Breazeale, Daniel, The Philosophical Forum 32(4) (2001): 297–310.
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings, ed. and trans. Breazeale, Daniel (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).
The Science of Knowledge, trans. Heath, Peter and Lachs, John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
‘On the Linguistic Capacity and the Origin of Language’, in Surber, Jere Paul, Language and German Idealism: Fichte’s Linguistic Philosophy (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1996).
‘J. G. Fichte: Review of Immanuel Kant Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (Königsburg: Nicolovius, 1795)’, trans. Breazeale, Daniel, The Philosophical Forum 32(4) (2001): 311–321.
Foundations of Natural Right, ed. Neuhouser, Frederick, trans. Baur, Michael (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797–1800), trans. and ed. Breazeale, Daniel (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994).
Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796/99), trans. and ed. Breazeale, Daniel (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
The System of Ethics, trans. Breazeale, Daniel and Zöller, Günter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
J. G. Fichte and the Atheism Dispute (1798–1800), ed. Estes, Yolanda and Bowman, Curtis (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010).
Vocation of Man, trans. Preuss, Peter (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1987).
Fichte, J. G. and Schelling, F. W. J., The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence, ed. Vater, Michael G. and Wood, David W. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012).
The Closed Commercial State, trans. Adler, Anthony Curtis (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012).
The Science of Knowing: J. G. Fichte’s 1804 Lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre, trans. Wright, Walter E. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005).
The Popular Works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, trans. Smith, William, 2 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1999).
Addresses to the German Nation, trans. Moore, Gregory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Addresses to the German Nation, trans. Nakhimovsky, Isaac, Kapossy, Béla and Tribe, Keith (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2013).
Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812), ed. and trans. Crowe, Benjamin D. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2016).

Bibliographies

Baumgartner, Hans Michael and Jacobs, Wilhelm G., J. G. Fichte-Bibliographie (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1968).
Breazeale, Daniel, Fichteana: Newsletter of the North American Fichte Society. 1993–2015, 20 issues: http://digilib.bu.edu/nnafs/fichteana.
Doyé, Sabine, J. G. Fichte-Bibliographie (1969–1991) (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1993).

Dedicated Journals and Publication Series

Fichte-Studien. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Systematik der Transzendentalphilosophie, 42 vols. (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi; later Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 1990–2016).
Fichte-Studien-Supplementa, 25 vols. (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi; later Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 1990–2010).
Fichtiana, 23 vols. (Milan: Guerini, 1995–2007).

Secondary Literature

Altman, Matthew C. (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014), Part III, Chapters 13–18.
Baumanns, Peter, Fichtes ursprüngliches System. Sein Standort zwischen Kant und Hegel (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1972).
Baumanns, Peter, J. G. Fichte. Kritische Gesamtdarstellung seiner Philosophie (Freiburg im Breisgau: Alber, 1990).
Beck, Gunnar, Fichte and Kant on Freedom, Rights, and Law (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008).
Beiser, Frederick, Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790–1800 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), Part I, Chapter 3.
Beiser, Frederick, German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781–1801 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), Part II, Chapters 1–8.
Breazeale, Daniel, Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte’s Early Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), Fichte: Historical Context/Contemporary Controversies (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), New Essays on Fichte’s Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), Fichte, German Idealism, and Early Romanticism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), Fichte’s Vocation of Man: New Interpretative and Critical Essays (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2013).
Breazeale, Daniel and Rockmore, Tom (eds.), Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Engelbrecht, H. C., Johann Gottlieb Fichte: A Study of His Political Writings with Special Reference to his Nationalism (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1933).
Gottlieb, Gabriel (ed.), Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Gueroult, Martial, L’évolution et la structure de la doctrine de la science chez Fichte, 2 vols. (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1930; reprint Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013).
Heimsoeth, Heinz, Fichte (Munich: Ernst Reinhardt, 1923).
Henrich, Dieter, ‘Fichte’s Original Insight’, in Contemporary German Philosophy, Vol. 1 (College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982), 15–53.
James, David, Fichte’s Social and Political Philosophy: Property and Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
James, David, Rousseau and German Idealism: Freedom, Dependence and Necessity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Chapters 3 and 5.
James, David, Fichte’s Republic: Idealism, History and Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Janke, Wolfgang, Fichte. Sein und Reflexion – Grundlagen der kritischen Vernunft (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1970).
Janke, Wolfgang, Die dreifache Vollendung des Deutschen Idealismus. Schelling, Hegel und Fichtes ungeschriebene Lehre (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009).
Kim, Halla and Hoeltzel, Steven (eds.), Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism (New York, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2015).
Lauth, Reinhard, Die transzendentale Naturlehre Fichtes nach den Prinzipien der Wissenschaftslehre (Hamburg: Meiner, 1984).
Lauth, Reinhard, Vernünftige Durchdringung der Wirklichkeit. Fichte und sein Umkreis (Neuried: Ars Una, 1994).
La Vopa, Anthony J., Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762–1799 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Léon, Xavier, Fichte et son temps, 2 vols. (Paris: Colin, 1922 and 1927).
Martin, Wayne, Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte’s Jena Project (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997).
Merle, Jean-Christophe, German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment, trans. Kominkiewicz, Joseph J. with Merle, Jean-Christophe and Brown, Frances (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), Part II, Chapter 4.
Nakhimovsky, Isaac, The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
Neuhouser, Frederick, Fichte’s Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Österreich, Peter L. and Traub, Hartmut. Der ganze Fichte. Die populäre, wissenschaftliche und metaphilosophische Erschließung der Welt (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2006).
Philonenko, Alexis, La Liberté humaine dans la philosophie de Fichte (Paris: Vrin, 1980).
Renaut, Alain, Le système du droit. Philosophie et droit dans la pensée de Fichte (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986).
Rockmore, Tom, Fichte, Marx, and the German Philosophical Tradition (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980).
Schrader, Wolfgang H. Empirisches und absolutes Ich. Zur Geschichte des Begriffs Leben in der Philosophie J. G. Fichtes (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1972).
Traub, Hartmut, Johann Gottlieb Fichtes Populärphilosophie 1804–1806 (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1992).
Verweyen, Hansjürgen, Recht und Sittlichkeit in J. G. Fichtes Gesellschaftslehre (Freiburg and Munich: Alber, 1992).
Weischedel, Wilhelm, Der frühe Fichte. Aufbruch der Freiheit zur Gemeinschaft, 2nd edn (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1973).
Williams, Robert R, Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992).
Wood, Allen W., The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), Chapters 7–9.
Wood, Allen W., Fichte’s Ethical Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
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Zöller, Günter, Fichte’s Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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Zöller, Günter, Fichte lesen (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2014).

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