May 7th, 2024, marks the official release date of Fichte in Berlin: The 1804 Wissenschaftslehre Dr. Matthew Nini's first book published with McGillQueen’s University Press. For this special occasion in Fichte scholarship, I invited Dr. Matthew Nini who presently is a Research Fellow at Freiburg University to participate in the Young Idealist Series on Classical German philosophy to discuss major themes from his new book.

Dr. Matthew Nini navigates us through Fichte's turbulent career from 1800 to 1805/1806; giving us detailed insight into Fichte's Berlin lectures.

Dr. Matthew Nini obtained his PhD from McGill University in 2022, with a thesis on Fichte. He is currently postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Freiburg. His first book, Fichte in Berlin (2024) has just been published with McGillQueen’s University Press.

Fichte in Berlin: The 1804 Wissenschaftslehre By Matthew Nini.

"In Fichte in Berlin Matthew Nini breaks with scholarly consensus, arguing it was there that Fichte finally reached maturity, and the only way to understand Fichte’s mature philosophy is to perform it for oneself. The book focuses on the philosopher’s 1804 lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre an untranslatable neologism for his theories on the pursuit of insight claiming that they are one of the most exemplary versions of the philosophical project that Fichte reconfigured some seventeen times throughout his life. While the 1804 lectures offer a more robust approach, they remain faithful to the insight at the heart of the original philosophy. Fichte’s work always emphasized the practical over the theoretical, and his 1804 work goes even further: to think with Fichte is to bring one’s own philosophy to life. Nini guides the reader step by step through the complex arguments Fichte made in 1804 and goes on to examine some of his other works produced in their wake, arguing that Fichte’s output from 1804 to 1806, his first Berlin period, forms an organic whole."

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