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Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right (1796/97) was one of the most influential books in nineteenth-century philosophy. It was read carefully by Schelling, Hegel, and Marx, and initiated a tradition in German philosophy that considers human subjectivity to be relational and intersubjective, thus requiring relations of recognition between subjects. The essays in this volume highlight this little-understood book's most important ideas and innovations. They offer discussions of Fichte's conception of freedom, self-consciousness, coercion, the summons, the body, and human rights, together with new analyses of his deduction of right, his views on the social contract, and his arguments for the separation of right from morality. The essays expand and deepen ongoing debates in the scholarship and chart new avenues of thought about Fichte's most enduring work of political philosophy. They will be essential reading for students and scholars of German Idealism, nineteenth-century philosophy, and the history of political thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right and its Relation to Kant
- 2 Fichte’s Separation of Right from Morality
- 3 Fichte’s Independence Thesis
- 4 Deduction of the Summons and the Existence of Other Rational Beings
- 5 Fichte’s Kabbalistic Realism: Summons as z.imz.um
- 6 Fichte’s Developmental View of Self-Consciousness
- 7 The Body as Site of Action and Intersubjectivity in Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right
- 8 Fichte’s Transcendental Deduction of Private Property
- 9 Fichte on Personal Freedom and the Freedom of Others
- 10 Freedom, Coercion, and the Relation of Right
- 11 Fichte’s Organic Unification: Recognition and the Self-overcoming of Social Contract Theory
- 12 Fichte and Human Rights
- Bibliography
- Index