Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Copyright page / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Dedication Page / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Foreword / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Notes on Contributors / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Part 1 Fichte and the Current Debates in the Americas / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- 1 The Reception, Development, and Application of J. G. Fichte’s Account of Gender, Marriage, and Family in the Americas / Yolanda Estes -- 2 Et in America ego. Fichte’s Liberal and Egalitarian Critique of Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery / Günter Zöller -- 3 Triple Fichtean Revolution: Notes to a Freer Latin-American Thinking / Thiago S. Santoro -- 4 Modernity and Its Peripheries: Originary Existence and Decolonization of Thought in Light of Fichte’s Late Work / Manuel Tangorra -- 5 Intersubjectivity, Common Consciousness, and the Death of the Milkman / Francisco Augusto de Moraes Prata Gaspar -- Part 2 Fichte’s Spirit at the Foundation of the American Independent Nations / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- 6 Echoes and Reverberations: Fichte’s Voice in the Independence of South American Countries / Virginia López-Domínguez -- 7 Fichte, Progress, and the Rise of Positivism in Latin America / Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- 8 Philosophy and Emancipation: Fichte’s Spirit in Alberdi’s Letter / María Jimena Solé -- 9 Fichte and the Democratic Self According to Walt Whitman / Federico Vicum -- 10 An Accomplice Reading of Fichte from the Other Side. Towards a Real Independence of Latin America / Marco Rampazzo Bazzan -- 11 “Still Fichte”: Individual, State, and Democracy in J.D. Perón’s Organized Community / Santiago Napoli -- Part 3 Fichte’s Reception, Influence, and Appropriation by American Thinkers / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- 12 Raimundo de Farias Brito, Kritiker des Positivismus zwischen Fichte und Jacobi / Christian Klotz -- 13 Fichte’s Metaphysics in Esteban Echeverría and José Mármol. Continuities around Pilgrim Subjectivity / Lucas Damián Scarfia -- 14 Fichte and Rojas / Alberto Sandoval -- 15 Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free Spirits / María Paz Lamas -- 16 Fichte by Taborda: Idealism and Critique of Modernity / Mariano Gaudio -- 17 The Spirit between Two Continents. Fichte in Turin, in São Paulo / Giorgia Cecchinato -- Appendix Pragmatismus als Idealismus. Peirce, Fichte und der radikale Anti-Cartesianismus / Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz -- Index of Fichte’s Works / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Index of Names / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan -- Index of Terms / María Jimena Solé and Elizabeth Millán Brusslan.

This collection is the first comprehensive history of Fichte’s reception in America, highlighting the existence of a long and strong tradition of Fichtean studies throughout the continent and demonstrating the centrality of Fichtean ideas in contemporary discussions of issues such as feminism, social criticism, and decolonial thought. Read and reinterpreted in the highly diverse circumstances across the American continent, Fichte’s ideas are presented in a radically new light, uncovering the Fichtean spirit of self-activity and autonomous thought in an American context.

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