JACOBI, Friedrich Heinrich.

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Werke. First collected edition, familial presentation copy, inscribed on behalf of the philosopher's children on the initial blank of Volume I, "To Adolf Richter from the Jacobi siblings, in grateful memory of manifold acts of friendship" (our translation).Jacobi (1743-1819), the father of philosophical nihilism and a fierce critic of rationalism, is often credited with sounding the death-knell of the German Enlightenment. Hegel and Fichte both judged him to be an equal of Kant: Hegel deemed Jacobi "one of those men who marked a turning point in the intellectual formation of the age" (quoted in Sandkaulen, p. 13). At the end of his life, Jacobi supervised the first three volumes of the Werke himself, and Volume II contains a new, 122-page preface to his essay on Hume, a self-defence against charges of irrationalism. The remaining volumes were completed by his associates.

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