"Welches Gesetz ist der Mensch in seiner Wirksamkeit?": Pedagogy and Media in Fichte's Encounter with Mesmerism

Franzel, Sean

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“…10 See also Caldwell 1842. On Fichte's appropriation of mesmerism, see Franzel 2009. 11 Hegel (19861971, 7 [translation modified]) also describes clairvoyance as "a brute fact" that "necessitates the advance from ordinary psychology to the comprehensive cognition afforded by speculative philosophy."…”

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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting

Andriopoulos¹

2018

American Literature

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How was it possible that numerous nineteenth-century readers believed in the authenticity of a made-up sensational story about a mesmerist experiment that supposedly arrested its subject between life and death? By juxtaposing Edgar Allan Poe's "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" with Justinus Kerner's medical case history "The Seeress of Prevorst," this essay compares the narrative constructions of verisimilitude in science and fiction. But in exploring the viral dissemination of "Valdemar," I also analyze how nineteenth-century print media produced content and credence by means of reprinting-a circular feedback reminiscent of our current world of social media, where unfounded or disproven stories gain credibility by being circulated, shared, and retweeted. Keywords death, mesmerism, literature and science, "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" In1829theGermanphysi cian Justinus Kerner published a medical case histor y titled The Seeress of Prevorst: Revelations on the Inner Life of Man and the Intrusion of the Spirit World upon Our Own. In it, Kerner (1914, 4:58) gives a detailed account of a former female patient capable of seeing into the beyond because she was, for seven years, "arrested by some fixation in the moment of dying between life and death." 1 Margaret Fuller (1983, 124), the American transcendentalist and women's rights advocate, praised the text in a May 9, 1843, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson as "a really good book," and in March 1845 Harper published an abridged US edition. Shortly thereafter, Edgar Allan Poe transformed Kerner's allegedly authentic documentation of "pure facts" (Kerner 1914, 4:56) into a compellingly morbid literar y stor y. "The Facts in the Case of

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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting

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2018

American Literature

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“…Scribner attempts to explain and account for this in his (2010). See alsoFranzel (2009). 15 It is worth keeping in mind that Fichte is clear that the I is not even an active thing, but an activity itself.…”

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Transcendental Idealism and Naturalism: The Case of Fichte

Phillips

2020

Journal of Transcendental Philosophy

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In this paper, I explore the relationship between naturalism and transcendental idealism in Fichte. I conclude that Fichte is a near-naturalist, akin to Baker, Lynne Rudder (2017). “Naturalism and the idea of nature,” Philosophy 92 (3): 333–349. A near-naturalist is one whose position looks akin to the naturalist in some ways but the near-naturalist can radically differ in metaphilosophical orientation and substantial commitment. This paper is composed of three sections. In the first, I outline briefly what I take transcendental idealism to be, as well as some differences in types of naturalism, and how this maps on to Fichte. In the second, I give an exegesis of Fichte’s key arguments in the Later Jena period, which are important for the question of his relationship to naturalism. In the third, I continue the exegesis with a discussion of Fichte’s conception of God, and conclude that these arguments support a near-naturalist reading of Fichte.

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"Welches Gesetz ist der Mensch in seiner Wirksamkeit?": Pedagogy and Media in Fichte's Encounter with Mesmerism

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Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting

Arrested in the Moment of Dying: Science, Fiction, and the Reality Effect of Reprinting

Transcendental Idealism and Naturalism: The Case of Fichte

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