The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800-1802) (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Fichte, J. G.; Schelling, F. W. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438440170 ISBN 13: 9781438440170

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2012

Synopsis

Correspondence and texts by Fichte and Schelling illuminate their thought and the trajectory of their philosophical falling out.

The disputes of philosophers provide a place to view their positions and arguments in a tightly focused way, and also in a manner that is infused with human temperaments and passions. Fichte and Schelling had been perceived as "partners" in the cause of Criticism or transcendental idealism since 1794, but upon Fichte's departure from Jena in 1799, each began to perceive a drift in their fundamental interests and allegiances. Schelling's philosophy of nature seemed to move him toward a realistic philosophy, while Fichte's interests in the origin of personal consciousness, intersubjectivity, and the ultimate determination of the agent's moral will moved him to explore what he called "faith" in one popular text, or a theory of an intelligible world. This volume brings together the letters the two philosophers exchanged between 1800 and 1802 and the texts that each penned with the other in mind.

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Michael G. Vater is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438440170
• ISBN 13: 9781438440170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 309