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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German idealist philosopher mentioned in aesthetic debates.

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Johann Gottlieb Fichte shows up with force in Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Views beauty as dependent on the observer's 'beautiful soul'.
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FWFriedrich Wilh…IKImmanuel KantJGJean-Marie GuyauASArthur Schopen…VCVictor CousinJGJohann Gottlieb Fichte

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