Versuch einer Critik aller Offenbarung.

[FICHTE (Johann Gottlieb).]

Versuch einer Critik aller Offenbarung.

First edition, first issue. 8vo. [2], 182 pp., engraved device to title. Contemporary sprinkled brown paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt on paper label, red speckled edges (paper stock uniformly browned, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; extremities slightly worn, upper corner of rear cover chipped with loss, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed). Königsberg, Hartungschen Buchhandlung, 1792.

£2,750.00

Fichte’s rare first book, Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation, in which he attempted to demonstrate a conditional necessity for historical revelation on the basis of Kantian principles.

The book was published anonymously and caused somewhat of a cause célèbre after being initially mistaken by many as having been written by Kant himself, leading to a meteoritic rise to fame for the previously unknown Fichte. Kant did in fact play a part in the publication of the book; Fichte ‘presented the first draft of the manuscript on revelation to Kant personally – with the request for a loan. Instead of this, Kant helped get the work printed’ (Verweyen, ‘Fichte’s Philosophy of Religion’, in The Cambridge Companion to Fichte, p. 275).

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