Fichte's Vocation of Man

Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. He is the editor and translator of several volumes of Fichte's writings, including Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings and Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings. Tom Rockmore is McAnulty College Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He is the author of many books, including Kant and Phenomenology and In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century. Together Breazeale and Rockmore have coedited many volumes, including Rights, Bodies and Recognition: New Essays on Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right.

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Preface

Introduction: The Checkered Reception of Fichte’s The Vocation of Man
Daniel Breazeale

1. “An Other and Better World”: Fichte’s The Vocation of Man as a Theological-Political Treatise
Günter Zóller

2. Fichte’s Philosophical Bildungsroman
Benjamin Crowe

3. Bestimmung as Bildung: On Reading Fichte’s Vocation of Man as a Bildungsroman
Elizabeth Millán

4. Knowledge Teaches Us Nothing: The Vocation of Man as Textual Initiation
Michael Steinberg

5. J. G. Fichte’s Vocation of Man: An Effort to Communicate
Yolanda Estes

6. “Interest”: An Overlooked Protagonist in Book I of Fichte’s Bestimmung des Menschen
M. Jorge de Almeida Carvalho

7. The Dialectic of Judgment and The Vocation of Man
Wayne Martin

8. The Traction of the World, or Fichte on Practical Reason and the Vocation of Man
Tom Rockmore

9. Fichte’s Conception of Infinity in the Bestimmung des Menschen
David W. Wood

10. Intersubjectivity and the Communality of Our Final End in Fichte’s Vocation of Man
Kien-How Goh

11. Evil and Moral Responsibility in The Vocation of Man
Jane Dryden

12. Jumping the Transcendental Shark: Fichte’s “Argument of Belief” in Book III of Die Bestimmung des Menschen and the Transition from the Earlier to the Later Wissenschaftslehre
Daniel Breazeale

13. Determination and Freedom in Kant and in Fichte’s Bestimmung des Menschen
Angelica Nuzzo

14. “There is in nature an original thinking power, just as there is an original formative power.” On a Claim from Book One of The Vocation of Man
Violetta L.Waibel

15. Erkenntnis and Interesse: Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism and Fichte’s Vocation of Man
Michael Vater

16. Faith and Knowledge and Vocation of Man: A Comparison between Hegel and Fichte
Marco Ivaldo

17. The Vocation of Postmodern Man: Why Fichte Now? Again!
Arnold Farr

Index