Versuch einer Critik aller Offenbarung.

£2,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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).

• Year: 1792

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