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Wayne M. Martin - Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte’s Jena Project - 9780804730006 - V9780804730006
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Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte’s Jena Project

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Description for Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte’s Jena Project Hardback. This new interpretation of Fichte's Jena system focuses on the problem of the objectivity of consciousness. Series: Studies in Kant & German Idealism. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.

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, Hölderlin, 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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Kant & German Idealism
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804730006
SKU
V9780804730006
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About Wayne M. Martin
Wayne M. Martin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

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