WorkJohann Gottlieb Fichte

Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten [Some Lectures on the Vocation of the Scholar]

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) · 1794

InferredIn her journal, Fuller encountered Johann Gottlieb Fichte's work, noting her struggle with a treatise she described as "intended to be popular" and claiming it "must compel... to conviction." This description, along with her use of the German word "bezwingen," strongly suggests she was engaging with Fichte's *Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten* (1794), a work known for its accessible style and assertive arguments.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“I got Fichte and Jacobi; I was much interrupted, but some time and earnest thought I devoted.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred In her journal, Fuller encountered Johann Gottlieb Fichte's work, noting her struggle with a treatise she described as "intended to be popular" and claiming it "must compel... to conviction." This description, along with her use of the German word "bezwingen," strongly suggests she was engaging with Fichte's Einige Vorlesungen über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten (1794), a work known for its accessible style and assertive arguments.