Fichte

1868 · 016715 — St. Louis MO: Wm. T. Harris. Original pale green wrapper. Dampstain in the bottom margin of both the front and back wrapper and three additional leaves adjacent to them four small chips along the bottom edges the top two inches of the spine missing Good. Internals apart from the barely discernable dampstain very nice. The pages are still unopened and the journal has obviously never been read. Volume II of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy contained three first printings of articles by C. S. Peirce presenting theories of cognition reality and logical validity and this issue of the volume contains one of these articles Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man. This article is recognized as one of five by Peirce constituting the modern founding of semiotic the general theory of signs. Peirce was a physicist mathematician and philosopher. He founded pragmatism and revolutionized logic. Bertrand Russell called Peirce "one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century" and "the greatest American thinker ever." This issue also contains partial translations of Fichte's Sun-clear Statement and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. . Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 1868. Wm. T. Harris paperback