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Acknowledgments In the course of writing a book I incurred innumerable debts. As gifts they can never be repaid, but only acknowledged. I would first like to thank Max Pensky, Frederick Neuhouser, and Stephen David Ross, all of whom read an earlier version of this project. I would especially like to thank Allen Wood for his extensive critical commentary on an earlier draft. Although the project was always a bit too Continental in flavor for him, he helped me anyway. Thanks Allen! Earlier versions of this work were also tested in the form of conference presentations at the North American Fichte Society. I would especially like to thank the following members of the Society for their continued support and helpful commentary: Dan Breazeale, Tom Rockmore, Wayne Martin, Günter Zöller, Steven Holztel, Claude Piché, Michael Vater, and Robert Williams. To those who helped foster the best models of critical reasoning in the Continental style, I thank you: William Wurzer, Christopher Fynsk and William Haver. I would like to thank my colleagues at the University of Hartford for their support—especially Marcia Moen, David Goldenberg , Bill Stoll, Mari Firkatian, Anthony Rauche, and the entire Humanities Department. Since this is my first book, I also feel compelled to acknowledge my debt to some of my earliest teachers: Hugh Silverman, who was always generous with his time, and Richard Capobianco, who first helped shape my rebellion into wonder. And despite this great intellectual community, any mistakes within this book remain mine own alone. Earlier versions of this work have appeared in edited collections. I would like to thank Rodopi Publishers for allowing me to use portions of the following two articles, which appear in heavily revised form as Chapters 4 and 7: ‘‘Falsification: On the Role of the Empirical in J. G. Fichte’s Transcendental Method,’’ in Fichte, German Idealism and Early Romanticism (Fichte-Studien Supplementa), ed. Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Amsterdam: viii Acknowledgments Rodopi, 2009), and ‘‘Die ‘Physicirung des Idealismus’ im Tagebuch über den animalischen Magnetismus: Die letzte Wissenschaftslehre oder Das Ende des Idealismus ?’’ in Fichte-Studien (Bd. 17–18): Die Spätphilosophie J. G. Fichtes, ed. Wolfgang H. Schrader (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001). I would like to thank Northwestern University Press for allowing me to publish a revised version of the following article as Chapter 5: ‘‘The ‘Subtle Matter’ of Intersubjectivity in the Grundlage des Naturrechts,’’ in New Essays on Fichte’s Later Jena Wissenschaftslehre, ed. Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002). Finally, I would like to thank Ashgate Publishers for allowing me to publish as Chapter 6, a revised version of ‘‘The Aesthetics of Influence: Fichte’s Grundlage des Naturrechts in View of Kant’s Third Critique,’’ in Rights, Bodies, and Recognition, ed. Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005). As any self-respecting phenomenology teaches, intellectual debt is only half the picture. I would like to thank my parents for providing material support at key moments of this project and to Sharon (Mazzola) Snow, who provided the emotional warmth and lightness that made this project possible at all. Like oxygen on the mountain top, she’s more Nietzschean than she’ll ever know. I would like to thank my broader family for their support, especially Evelyn Eisenhardt and Barbara Hindley, who cared enough to ask me to explain my project in accessible terms. Finally I would like to dedicate this book to two people: to my dear friend Anthony Hakian, who knew the pain of solitude and answered the ultimate of philosophical questions in his own way (1968–1996), and to my grandfather, Charles E. Eisenhardt, who, by example, taught me how to love a book (1907–2006). ...