Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

Gottlieb, Gabriel

ISBN 10: 1107435072 / ISBN 13: 9781107435070

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107435072
• ISBN 13: 9781107435070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right (1796/97) was one of the most influential books in nineteenth-century philosophy. It was read carefully by Schelling, Hegel, and Marx, and initiated a tradition in German philosophy that considers human subjectivity to be relational and intersubjective, thus requiring relations of recognition between subjects. The essays in this volume highlight this little-understood book's most important ideas and innovations. They offer discussions of Fichte's conception of freedom, self-consciousness, coercion, the summons, the body, and human rights, together with new analyses of his deduction of right, his views on the social contract, and his arguments for the separation of right from morality. The essays expand and deepen ongoing debates in the scholarship and chart new avenues of thought about Fichte's most enduring work of political philosophy. They will be essential reading for students and scholars of German Idealism, nineteenth-century philosophy, and the history of political thought.

About the Author

Gabriel Gottlieb is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Ohio. He is the author of a number of articles on Fichte in publications including The Nineteenth Century Philosophy Reader (2015).