Fichte's Vocation of Man : New Interpretive and Critical Essays.

Intro -- 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.": 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 -- I -- 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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