Document Type
Contribution to Book
Language
eng
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave-Macmillan
Source Publication
Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy
Source ISSN
978-1-137-41223-2
Abstract
The Fichte-Schelling Correspondence interweaves intriguing personal stories and philosophical combat. One of the sadder personal stories involves Schelling getting wind of Fichte’s remark to Friedrich Schlegel that he did not understand transcendental method. The letters document several clumsy attempts by Fichte to minimize the criticism only to have it surface again in a letter Fichte wrote to a former student, Jean Baptiste Schad, who showed the letter to Schelling. In it, Fichte claimed that Schelling understood Wissenschaftslehre no better than Friedrich Nicolai, whom Fichte had publicly excoriated for critiquing as “I-philosophy” a superficial assemblage of random quotes from mixed sources.
Recommended Citation
Vater, Michael, "Did Schelling Misunderstand Fichte’s Transcendental Method?" (2014). Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications. 684.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/phil_fac/684
Comments
Accepted version. "Did Schelling Misunderstand Fichte’s Transcendental Method?" in Fichte and Transcendental Philosophy. Eds. Tom Rockmore and Daniel Breazeale. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2014: 257-272. DOI. © 2017 Springer International Publishing AG. Used with permission.