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(2014) Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
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 criticism1 only to have it surface again in a letter Fichte wrote to a former student, Jean Baptiste Schad, who showed the letter to Schelling.2 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.
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Vater, M. (2014)., Did Schelling misunderstand Fichte's transcendental method?, in T. Rockmore & D. Breazeale (eds.), Fichte and transcendental philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 257-272.
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