Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy

Johann Gottlieb Fichte is a widely known transcendental philosopher and obviously a thinker of the first rank. Yet contemporary interest in and evaluation of "transcendental philosophy" as well as the precise meaning of the terms and its relation to "transcendental method" remains unclear. With renewed attention to German idealism in general and to Fichte in particular, this timely collection of new papers will be of interest to anyone concerned with transcendental philosophy, German idealism, modern German philosophy, and transcendental arguments.

Tom Rockmore and Daniel Breazeale are the co-founders and co-directors of the North American Fichte Society. 

Tom Rockmore is McAnulty College Distinguished Professor emeritus in Duquesne University, USA. He is currently Distinguished humanities chair professor at Peking University, China.
 
Daniel Breazeale is Distinguished Professor at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: FICHTE ON METHOD AND TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY
1. On the very Idea of a Method of Transcendental Philosophy; Jere Surber
2. Fichte's Public "Discourses on Method," 1794-1801: A Comparative Study; Daniel Breazeale
3. Is Fichte's Position Transcendental Philosophy? Tom Rockmore
4. Transcendental Philosophy, Method, and System in Kant, Fichte and Hegel; Angelica Nuzzo
PART II: FICHTE AND TRANSCENDENTAL PHILOSOPHY: SPECIAL PROBLEMS
5. Fichte and the Contemporary Transcendental Arguments Debate; Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel
6. The Letter is Particularly Lethal in the Wissenschaftslehre; Claude Piché
7. Fichte's Experiments with the Productive Imagination; Brett Fulkerson-Smith
8. The Ideality of Idealism: Fichte's Battle against Dogmatic Kantianism; Kien-how Goh
9. Abstraction in Fichte; Halla Kim
10. Popular Method: On Truth and Falsehood in Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy; Guenter Zoeller
11. Self-Determination and Immediate Self-Consciousness in the Jena Wissenshaftslehre; Jeffery Kinlaw
12. Knowledge and Standpoint: Fichte's Understanding of Science and Transcendental Knowledge in the Propädeutik Erlangen (1805); Jorge de Carvalho
13. The Methodical Singularity of the First Fichte; Jacinto Rivera de Rosales
PART III: FICHTE, OTHER THINKERS, AND OTHER DEBATES
14. Is Fichte's Transcendental Thinking Transcendental Argument?; Liu Zhe
15. Fichte's Transcendental Justification Of Human Rights; James Clarke
16. Did Schelling Misunderstand Fichte's Transcendental Method?; Michael Vater
17. What is the Unlimited Communication Community? Transcendental Pragmatics As Contemporary Fichteanism; Michihito Yoshime
18. Non-epistemic Justification and Practical Postulation in Fichte
Steven Hoeltzel
19. A Plea for (Fichtean) Hypothetical Idealism: Exosomatic Evolution and the Empiricism of the Transcendental; Scott Scribner
Index