Fichte: Attempt at a Critique of All RevelationThe Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (1792) was the first published work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 1814), the founder of the German idealist movement in philosophy. It predated the system of philosophy which Fichte developed during his years in Jena, and for that reason and possibly also because of its religious orientation later commentators have tended to overlook the work in their treatments of Fichte's philosophy. It is, however,