Matters of spirit
Subtitle: J.G. Fichte and the technological imagination
By: F. Scott Scribner.
Series: American and European philosophy
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780271036212
Subjects: Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, -- 1762-1814; Imagination; Technology
Description: "An interpretation of the philosophy of J.G. Fichte. Examines the impact of nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the formation of his theory of the imagination"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Earlier versions of this work were also tested in the form of conference presentations at the North American Fichte Society"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An introduction to the crisis of spirit : technology and the Fichtean imagination; title: Technology and truth : representation and the problem of the third term; title: Spirit and the technology of the letter; title: The spatial imagination : affect, image, and the critique of representational consciousness; title: Subtle matter and the ground of intersubjectivity; title: The aesthetic of influence; title: The first displacement : from subjectivity to being; title: The second displacement : from a metaphysical to a technological imagination.