This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762?1814), a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The book explains Fichte?s notion of subjectivity and how his particular view developed out of Kant?s acco[...]
Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality among Mankind, published in 1755, is a vastly influential study of the foundations of human society, including the economic inequalities it tends to create. To date, however, there has been little philosophical analysis of the Discourse in the literat[...]