Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered
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Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered

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Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered

About this book

One of J. G. Fichte's best-known works, Addresses to the German Nation is based on a series of speeches he gave in Berlin when the city was under French occupation. They feature Fichte's diagnosis of his own era in European history as well as his call for a new sense of German national identity, based upon a common language and culture rather than "blood and soil." These speeches, often interpreted as key documents in the rise of modern nationalism, also contain Fichte's most sustained reflections on pedagogical issues, including his ideas for a new egalitarian system of Prussian national education. The contributors' reconsideration of the speeches deal not only with technical philosophical issues such as the relationship between language and identity, and the tensions between universal and particular motifs in the text, but also with issues of broader concern, including education, nationalism, and the connection between morality and politics.

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Yes, you can access Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation Reconsidered by Daniel Breazeale, Tom Rockmore, Daniel Breazeale,Tom Rockmore in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & German History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781438462547, 9781438462554
eBook ISBN
9781438462561
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
German History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation
  7. 1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral Cultivation
  8. 2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken: A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte’s Reden
  9. 3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation
  10. 4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation
  11. 5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National Identity
  12. 6. Fichte’s Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung
  13. 7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte’s Addresses
  14. 8. Fichte’s Imagined Community and the Problem of Stability
  15. 9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte’s Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation
  16. 10. How to Change the World: Cultural Critique and the Historical Sublime in the Addresses to the German Nation
  17. 11. Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation and the Philosopher as Guide
  18. 12. World War I, the Two Germanies, and Fichte’s Addresses
  19. 13. Fault Lines in Fichte’s Reden
  20. List of Contributors
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover