Breazeale, Daniel. "Fichte's Aenesidemus Review and the Transformation of German Idealism." The Review of Metaphysics XXXIV, No. 3 (March 1981): 545-68.

Examines the moment and content of Fichte's review in order to establish its significance in Fichte's thought, as well as Breazeale's assertion that it "marks a genuine watershed in the history of German Idealism."

Breazeale, Daniel and Tom Rockmore, eds. Fichte: Historical Contexts/Contemporary Controversies. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1994, 271 p.

Presents a selection of essays on Fichte that reflect the resurgent, late twentieth-century interest. Includes essays by the editors and by Robert Williams, Jere Paul Surber, and Frederick Neuhouser.

Breazeale, Daniel and Tom Rockmore, eds. New Perspectives on Fichte. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1996, 233 p.

Updates the editors' previous volume, particularly stressing new approaches to Fichte. Includes essays by the editors and by Wayne M. Martin, Jere Paul Surber, and George J. Seidel.

Engelbrecht, H. C. Johann Gottlieb Fichte: A Study of His Political Writings with Special Reference to His Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933, 221 p.

Attempts to provide an objective analysis of Fichte as a political philosopher, in light of his prominence as the author of Reden an die deutsche Nation and the fact that numerous German factions have used this work to promote their own causes.

Everett, Charles Carroll. Fichte's Science of Knowledge: A Critical Exposition. Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Company, 1892,287 p.

Detailed critique of Fichte's Principles of the Complete Science of Knowledge.

Heath, Peter, and John Lachs. Preface to J. G. Fichte: Science of Knowledge, edited and translated by Peter Heath and John Lachs, pp. vii-xviii. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

This preface to Fichte's "Introductions" was first published in 1970. Beginning by recapping the problems with Fichte's style, the authors nevertheless present his works as rewarding reading. They also characterize Fichte's system as "tenable idealism" and summarize his concept of the "self."

Hegel, G. W. F. The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy. Trans. H.S. Harris and Walter Cerf. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977,213 p.

A famous and influential work, originally published in 1801, by the young Hegel. Includes his "Exposition of Fichte's System," which the author contends is not a system.

Hohler, T. P. Imagination and Reflection: Intersubjectivity, Fichte's Grundlage of 1794. The Hague, Boston, and London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1982, 159 p.

Argues that Fichte was the first thinker responsible for bringing reflection and imagination—elements already central to philosophy—to bear on the problem of intersubjectivity.

Lachs, John. "Fichte's Idealism." American Philosophical Quarterly 9, No. 4 (October 1972): 311-18.

Defines the specific character of Fichte's critical idealism, which Lachs identifies as dependent on Fichte's concept of a "single, unconditioned self."

Martin, Wayne M. "Fichte's Anti-Dogmatism." Ratio V, No. 2 (December 1992): 129-46.

Reviews critical treatment of the opposition between idealism and dogmatism in Fichte's work. Martin reaches his own conclusion in this discussion by arguing that Fichte conceived of realism as entirely compatible with idealism.

Rose, Paul Lawrence. "The German Nationalists and the Jewish Question: Fichte and the Birth of Revolutionary Antisemitism." In Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner, pp. 117-32. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Analyzes the form that anti-Semitism takes in Fichte's work and explains how Fichte's anti-Semitism figured into the rise of German nationalism.

Surber, Jere Paul. Language and German Idealism: Fichte's Linguistic Philosophy. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1996, 190 p.

Treats Fichte's generally neglected work "On the Linguistic Capacity and the Origin of Language" (1795). Surber characterizes the work as an anomaly in German Idealism and an anticipation of post-structuralist ideas about language.

Talbot, Ellen Bliss. The Fundamental Principle of Fichte's Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1906, 140 p.

Examines Fichte's philosophies in-depth and challenges some standard interpretations of the earlier criticism.

Thompson, Anna Boynton. The Unity of Fichte's Doctrine of Knowledge. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1895, 215 p.

Attempts to achieve an understanding of Fichte's science of knowledge by following his thought process. Thompson claims that in order to fully grasp Fichte's system, the reader must "not only follow Fichte, but . . . follow him with sympathy."

Weissberg, Liliane. "A Philosopher's Style: Reading Fichte's 'Geist und Buchstab.'" In Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel, by Steven Taubeneck, pp. 117-32. New York: Peter Lang, 1991.

Considers Fichte's ideas and style at once in order to demonstrate that the opacity of his style stems from his philosophy itself.

Williams, Robert R. Recognition: Fichte and Hegel on the Other. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992, 332 p.

Contends not only that the "problem of the other" was central to Fichte's system of idealism, but moreover that Fichte "explicitly formulated the problem of the other."

Additional coverage of Fichte's life and career is contained in the following source published by Gale Research: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 90.