Rights, Bodies and Recognition

This volume of essays, which examine such issues as Fichte as a social contract theorist, his theory of gender relations and his theories on punishment and the criminal law among many other topics, remedies what has been a striking lacuna in the existing scholarly literature.

Introduction; Is Fichte a social contract theorist?, Wayne M. Martin; Fichte's impossible contract, Michael Baur; Recognition, right and social contract, Robert R. Williams; On the fundamental connection between moral law and natural right in Fichte's Contribution (1793) and Foundations of Natural Right (1796/97), Violetta L. Waibel; Fichte's hypothetical imperative: morality, right, and philosophy in the Jena Wissenschaftslehre, Yolanda Estes; The role of the human body in Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts (1796-97), Angelica Nuzzo; Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and the mind-body problem, GA1/4nter ZAller; Fichte's materialism, Bruce Merrill; The 'mixed method' of Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts and the limits of transcendental Reellephilosophie, Daniel Breazeale; An aesthetics of influence: Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right in view of Kant's third critique, F. Scott Scribner; Fichte's theory of gender relations in his Foundations of Natural Right, BArbel Frischmann; Political obligation and the imagination in Fichte's Naturrecht, Jefferey Kinlaw; The universality of human rights and the sovereignty of the state in Fichte's Doctrine of Right, Hans Georg von Manz; Schelling's aphorisms on natural right (1796/97): a comparison with Fichte's Grundlage des Naturrechts, Michael G. Vater; Transcendental conditions and the transcendence of conditions: Fichte and Schelling on the foundations of natural right, Steven Hoeltzel; Fichte, Heidegger and the Nazis, Tom Rockmore; Rights, recognition, and regulative ideas: on the relationship between Fichte's theory of rights and contemporary liberation philosophies, Arnold Farr.