Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) - Softcover

Wood, Allen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521130182 ISBN 13: 9780521130189

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (1792) was the first published work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), the founder of the German idealist movement in philosophy. It predated the system of philosophy which Fichte developed during his years in Jena, and for that reason - and possibly also because of its religious orientation - later commentators have tended to overlook the work in their treatments of Fichte's philosophy. It is, however, already representative of the most interesting aspects of Fichte's thought. It displays an affinity with his later moral psychology, introduces (in theological form) Fichte's distinctively 'second-person' conception of moral requirements, and employs the 'synthetic method' which is crucial to the transcendental systems Fichte developed during his Jena period. This volume offers a clear and accessible translation of the work by Garrett Green, while an introduction by Allen Wood sets the work in its historical and philosophical contexts.

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Book Description

The Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (1792) was the first published work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), the founder of the German idealist movement in philosophy. This volume offers a clear and accessible translation by Garrett Green, while Allen Wood's introduction sets the work's historical and philosophical contexts.

About the Author

Garrett Green is the Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Connecticut College. His previous publications include Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of Modernity (2000) and Imagining God: Theology and the Religious Imagination (1989). He previously edited and translated Karl Barth's On Religion: The Revelation of God as the Sublimation of Religion (2006).

Allen Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Indiana University. His previous publications include Kantian Ethics (Cambridge, 2008), Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief (2002) and Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521130182
• ISBN 13: 9780521130189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196