Research

Professor Daniel Breazeale has been at the University of Kentucky since 1971. He specializes in German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, with a research focus on post-Kantian idealism and the philosophy of J. G. Fichte. Other interests include existentialism, skepticism, and social and political philosophy.  Professor Breazeale has received an NEH fellowship for 2009-10 in support of his project entitled, "Fichte’s Path from Kant to the Wissenschaftslehre.  Zurich Writings (1793-1794)".

Selected Publications

• New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre, ed., with Tom Rockmore (Northwestern University Press, 2002).
• New Essays on Fichte's Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre, ed., with Tom Rockmore (Humanity Books, 2001).
• "Reinhold über Maimon über den Gebrauch der Fikzionen in der Philosophie" in Die Philosophie Karl Leonhard Reinholds (Rodopi, 2003).
• “Two Cheers for Post-Kantianism.” Inquiry 46 (2003).
• "'Der Satz der Bestimmbarkeit: Fichte’s Appropriation and Transformation of Maimon’s Principle of Synthetic Thinking." Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus/International Yearbook of German Idealism 1 (2003).
• "What is a 'Pragmatic History of the Human Mind'? Some Methodological Remarks on Fichte's Jena Project," in Fichte: Crença, imaginaçãi e temporalidade (Campos das Letras 2002).
• "Fichte's Philosophical Fictions," in New Essays on Fichte's Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre (Northwestern University Press, 2002).
• "Fichte's Conception of Philosophy as a 'Pragmatic History of the Human Mind' and the Contributions of Kant, Platner, and Maimon," Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (2001).
• "Philosophy for Beginners: A Comparative Reading of Fichte's Crystal Clear Public Report and Schelling's Lectures on the Method of University Study, in Schelling zwischen Fichte und Hegel (Grüner, 2000).
• "The Spirit of the Wissenschaftslehre," in The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling and Hegel (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• "Nietzsche, Critical History, and 'das Pathos der Richtertum,'" Revue Internationale de Philosophie 54 (2000).