Inventing the Intellectual: Schiller and Fichte at the University of Jena.

<title/> Following their appointment to professorships at the University of Jena, Schiller and Fichte both delivered lectures - Schiller's inaugural lecture on universal history written immediately before the outbreak of the French Revolution and Fichte's lecture series on the vocation of the scholar written in the aftermath of the Terror - that sought to define the new role of the intellectual in German public life. From their different historical perspectives the lectures reflect in different ways the problematic nature of the role, in particular its lack of connection to the socio-political base of an independent and self-governing middle class and hence its distance from political power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]