Offers a clear and accessible translation of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation.

Allen Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University and Indiana University. His previous publications include Kantian Ethics (Cambridge, 2008), Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality and the Ethics of Belief (2002) and Hegel's Ethical Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and translation; Dedication; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Theory of the will in preparation for a deduction of religion in general; 3. Deduction of religion in general; 4. Division of religion in general into natural and revealed; 5. Formal discussion of the concept of revelation in preparation for a material discussion of it; 6. Material discussion of the concept of revelation in preparation for a deduction of it; 7. Deduction of the concept of revelation from a priori principles of pure reason; 8. The possibility of the empirical datum presupposed in the concept of revelation; 9. The physical possibility of a revelation; 10. Criteria of the divinity of a revelation with regard to its possible content; 11. Criteria of the divinity of a revelation with regard to the possible presentation of this content; 12. Systematic order of these criteria; 13. The possibility of receiving a given appearance as divine revelation; 14. General overview of this critique; Concluding remark; Appendix: passages omitted in the second edition; Glossary; Index.