Foundations of the Science of Knowledge

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Foundations of the Science of Knowledge
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Author Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Original title Grundlage der gesammten<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>a Wissenschaftslehre
Country Germany
Language German
Subject Epistemology
Publication date
1794/1795
Media type Print
Pages 324 (1982 Cambridge University Press edition)
ISBN 978-0521270502
a gesamten in modern German.

Foundations of the Science of Knowledge (German: Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre) is a 1794/1795 book by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Based on lectures Fichte had delivered as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jena, it was later reworked in various versions. The standard Wissenschaftslehre was published in 1804, but other versions appeared posthumously.[1]

Scholarly reception

In 1798, the German romantic Friedrich Schlegel identified the Wissenschaftslehre, together with the French revolution and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, as "the most important trend-setting events (Tendenzen) of the age."[2]

Michael Inwood believes that the work is close in spirit to the early works of Edmund Husserl, including the Ideas (1913) and the Cartesian Meditations (1931).[3]

The Wissenschaftslehre has been described by Roger Scruton as being both "immensely difficult" and "rough-hewn and uncouth".[1]

References

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Scruton 2000. p. 208.
  2. Seidel 1993. p. 1.
  3. Inwood 2005. p. 410.

Bibliography

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