System and Freedom in Kant and Fichte: Festschrift in Honor of Günter Zöller by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy (review).

This volume, edited by Giovanni Pietro Basile and Ansgar Lyssy, is a collection of eleven essays honoring Günter Zöller and exploring the concepts of system and freedom in the philosophies of Immanuel Kant and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. The essays examine Kant’s teleological reason and modest systematicity, which allows for freedom within his transcendental idealism, alongside Fichte’s more unified system grounded in freedom as an absolute first principle. The book is organized into three parts addressing Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy, his anthropology, religion, and political philosophy, and Fichte’s systematic philosophy. Contributors engage with topics such as the identity of reason in Kant, the role of anthropology in his Critical philosophy, and Fichte’s dialectical synthetic method and political ideas. The volume invites reconsideration of systematic philosophy’s role amid contemporary philosophical trends.