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Acknowledgments Almost all the texts translated in this volume are based on the established critical editions, the J. G. Fichte Gesamtausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, eds. Reinhard Lauth, Hans Gliwitzky, Hans Jacob, Erich Fuchs, Peter K. Schneider, and Günter Zöller [GA] and the Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Historisch-kritische Ausgabe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften , eds. Thomas Buchheim, Jochem Hennigfeld, Wilhelm G. Jacobs, Jörg Jantzen, and Siegbert Peetz [HkA]. The editor-translators of the present volume are grateful to the commissions of scholars who have carried out this work, and for the support of the Freistatt Bayern and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland for these institutions and their long-term projects. We are particularly grateful to Manfred Durner, Thomas Kisser, Walter Schieche, and Alois Wieshuber for the critical edition of the relevant Schelling texts and letters that have been published in the last two years, and to Erich Fuchs, Peter K. Schneider, and Manfred Zahn for their critical edition and notes of the Fichte texts and letters from the corresponding period 1800–1802. Hartmut Traub’s edition of the Schelling-Fichte Briefwechsel has been very helpful, and Myriam Bienenstock’s elegant French translation of that text and Emmanuel Cattin’s of Schelling’s Presentation served both as inspirations and benchmarks. Thomas Kisser, Ives Radrizzani, and Hans Georg von Manz provided helpful assistance in the location of manuscripts and texts. Both of us have especially benefited from long-term support and encouragement in this field from Karl Ameriks, Daniel Breazeale, Hans Jörg Sandkühler, and Günter Zöller. All these people are responsible for whatever merit there is in these translations and analyses; flaws and mistakes of course rest on our doorstep. Thanks are due to the Frommann-Holzboog Verlag for their kind permission to translate Fichte’s short commentary “Vorarbeiten gegen Schelling” and the excerpt from the Neue Bearbeitung der Wissenschaftslehre, and to the editor and publisher of The Philosophical Forum, where earlier and partial translations of the Schelling texts appeared. We are particularly grateful to Andrew Kenyon, Diane Ganeles, and the State University of New York Press for welcoming this manuscript into their collection of works on German idealism. vii viii Acknowledgments Finally, David W. Wood would especially like to thank Laure CahenMaurel and Erich Fuchs for their help. Michael Vater would like to thank Steve Iverson, Grace Jessen, Sue Firer, and the late Claudia Schmidt for their personal support. ...

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