Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: Band 12: Briefwechsel 1799–1800

At the beginning of these years, Jacobi completes his so-called »gypsy life« and settles in Eutin; here he writes – in the context of the ›controversy of atheism‹ concerning the philosophy of J. G. Fichte – his partially apologetic, partially critical epistle ›Jacobi to Fichte‹. Thereafter he prepares his most detailed critique of Kant with his text ›Ueber das Unternehmen des Kritizismus ...‹. His most important correspondents in those disputes are Karl Leonhard Reinhold and Jean Paul. Alongside, Jacobis correspondence reflects his deep disappointment caused by F. L. Graf zu Stolberg’s conversion to catholicism (1800).