Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity

by Frederick Neuhouser

Book Overview

This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The book explains Fichte's notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant's accounts of theoretical and practical reason. Fichte argued that the subject has a self-positing structure which distinguishes it from a thing or an object...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521399386
• ISBN13: 9780521399388
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"