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Idealism and Objectivity - Understanding Fichte's Jena Project (Hardcover)
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Idealism and Objectivity - Understanding Fichte's Jena Project (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Kant and German Idealism
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The theoretical writings from Johann Gottlieb Fichte's short tenure
at Jena (1794-99) are among the most difficult and influential
works of classical German philosophy. Fichte's appropriation of
Kant's transcendental project not only established the framework
for the subsequent idealist tradition (Schelling, Holderlin,
Hegel), but also introduced philosophical themes and strategies
that would dominate the Continental tradition well into the
twentieth century.
This book offers a new interpretation of Fichte's Jena system,
focusing in particular on the problem of the objectivity of
consciousness. The Jena system, the author argues, set out to
develop an account of the constitutive structures of subjectivity
in virtue of which conscious states have objective content. It is
in the context of this project that Fichte's central philosophical
innovations must be understood: his account of the acts of
"self-positing" and "opposing"; his attack on the thing in itself;
the development of a dialectical strategy in transcendental
inquiry; and his bold assertion of the "primacy of practice."
Fichte's investigations of objectivity find their center of
gravity, it is argued, in two powerful insights. First, the theory
of objectivity must be idealistic rather than naturalistic or
"dogmatic." That is, it must transcend the conception of human
beings as simply complex mechanisms determined by their causal
transactions with the world. Second, the theory of objectivity must
find its basis in an account of the practical character of human
beings--our character as agents, comporting ourselves teleogically
in a world in which we find resistance.
The account of Fichte's Jena project developed here demonstrates
that Fichte's thought is of far more than antiquarian interest. In
its attempt to explore the limits of naturalistic accounts of human
subjectivity and its articulation of the practical foundations of
human representational capacities, Fichte's Jena project is of
direct relevance to contemporary debates in both analytic and
continental philosophy.
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