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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Key to Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: The Checkered Reception of Fichte’s Vocation of Man
1 “An Other and Better World”: Fichte’s The Vocation of Man as a Theologico-Political Treatise
Habent sua fata libelli*
The Vocational Tradition
The Separation of State and Realm
2 Fichte’s Philosophical Bildungsroman
Fichte and the Philosophical Novel
Moral Formation in the Vocation of Man
Conclusion
3 Bestimmung as Bildung: On Reading Fichte’s Vocation of Man as a Bildungsroman
Was suchst Du doch mein klagendes Herz? The Philosopher of Freedom Meets the Singer of Fados
Taming the Self-Devouring Monster: Nature and Freedom Revisited
Conclusion
4 Knowledge Teaches Us Nothing: The Vocation of Man as Textual Initiation
5 J. G. Fichte’s Vocation of Man: An Effort to Communicate
Introduction: The Atheism Dispute– A Failure to Communicate
Criticisms of Fichte
Vocation of Man as a Development of Fichte’s Philosophical Distinctions
Vocation of Man as a Reaffirmation of Fichte’s Philosophical Assertions
Vocation of Man as an Alteration of Fichte’s Approach to Philosophical Communication
Conclusion: Vocation of Man—An Effort to Communicate
6 “Interest”: An Overlooked Protagonist in Book I of Fichte’s Bestimmung des Menschen
7 The Dialectic of Judgment and The Vocation of Man
8 The Traction of the World, or Fichte on Practical Reason and the Vocation of Man
Fichte’s Reaction to Kant
Doubt
Knowledge
Faith
Conclusion: Fichte on Knowledge and the Vocation of Man
9 Fichte’s Conception of Infinity in the Bestimmung des Menschen
Bestimmung as an Infinite Line or Infinite Approximation
Mathematical Infinity
The Dispute over the Infinite Polygon
God as “the Infinite”
Conclusion—The Transition Problem
10 Intersubjectivity and the Communality of Our Final End in Fichte’s Vocation of Man
11 Evil and Moral Responsibility in The Vocation of Man
The Horrific World
The Problem of Evil
The Place of God
Blurring the Distinctions—Rousseau, the Lisbon Earthquake, and Contemporary Disasters
Complicity in Physical Evil
Moral Evil and the Mechanism of Nature
The Scope of Human Responsibility
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
Assessing the “Vocation of Humanity,” 1794–1800
Philosophy as Denkart
The Subject (What Is Man?)
The End or Goal [ Zweck ] of Human Striving
The Pure I and/or the Infinite Will
The Defective “Argument of Belief” in Bk. III of the Vocation of Man
The Unique and Problematic Status of the Vocation of Man within Fichte’s Overall Development
13 Determination and Freedom in Kant and in Fichte’s Bestimmung des Menschen
Kant. Determining Existence: From Objects to the Subject
Spontaneity and Determination
Fichte, Die Bestimmung des Menschen
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
Introduction
Book One: Doubt, or Fichte’s Naturalistic View of Man
Johann Heinrich Jacobi’s Treatise on Freedom
A Final Brief View on the Three Books of The Vocation of Man
15 Erkenntnis and Interesse: Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism and Fichte’s Vocation of Man
Faith, Interest, and the “Intellectual World”
The Odyssey of Consciousness
The Difference—If Not the Primacy—of the Practical
16 Faith and Knowledge and Vocation of Man: A Comparison between Hegel and Fichte
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II
III
17 The Vocation of Postmodern Man: Why Fichte Now? Again!
Introduction: Why Fichte Now? Again!
Postmodernism’s Challenge to Philosophy and its Political Relevance
Postmodernism’s Political Paralysis
Book One and the Impossibility of Theoretical Closure
Books Two and Three, the Nontheoretical Foundation of Knowledge
Striving: The Vocation of Postmodern Man or Man as Such
Conclusion
Index
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