In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation have also been interpreted by many as a vision of a cosmopolitan alternative to nationalism.

This new edition of the Addresses is designed to make Fichte's arguments more accessible to English-speaking readers. The clear, readable, and reliable translation is accompanied by a chronology of the events surrounding Fichte's life, suggestions for further reading, and an index. The groundbreaking introductory essay situates Fichte's theory of the nation state in the history of modern political thought. It provides historians, political theorists, and other students of nationalism with a fresh perspective for considering the interface between cosmopolitanism and republicanism, patriotism and nationalism.

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Publisher

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Year

2013

ISBN

9781603849838

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Modern Philosophy

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chronology
Note on the Text and Translation
Suggestions for Further Reading
Addresses to the German Nation
Foreword
First Address: Prefatory Review and Survey of the Whole Work
Second Address: General Remarks on the Essence of the New Education
Third Address: The New Education, Continued
Fourth Address: The Principal Difference between the Germans and Other Peoples of Germanic Descent
Fifth Address: Consequences of the Difference That Has Been Established
Sixth Address: A Historical Demonstration of the Principal Characteristics of the Germans
Seventh Address: A More Detailed Treatment of the Aboriginality and Germanness of a People
Eighth Address: What a People, in the Higher Sense of the Word, Is; and What Love of One’s Country Is
Ninth Address: Exactly Where in Reality New German National Education Should Start
Tenth Address: A More Precise Account of German National Education
Eleventh Address: Those Who Will Put This Educational Plan into Practice
Twelfth Address: On the Means of Preserving Ourselves until the Achievement of Our Principal Aim
Contents of the Thirteenth Address: Continuation of the Previous Observations
Fourteenth Address: Conclusion of the Whole
Index
Back Cover