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Jacobi an Fichte

Jacobi an Fichte (1799) Inferred

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819) · 1799

InferredIn her reflections, Margaret Fuller references Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's "Letters to Fichte," a foundational text in the debates of German idealism. She notes its role in her own intellectual preoccupations during her time in Cambridge, having encountered this work within the Mackintosh Memoirs.

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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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“particularly what I was myself troubled about, at Cambridge,—Jacobi's letters to Fichte.”

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 reflections, Margaret Fuller references Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's "Letters to Fichte," a foundational text in the debates of German idealism. She notes its role in her own intellectual preoccupations during her time in Cambridge, having encountered this work within the Mackintosh Memoirs.