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Title Fichte's addresses to the German nation reconsidered / edited by Daniel Breazeale and Tom Rockmore
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016

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Contents Abbreviations ; Introduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Notes; 1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral Cultivation ; I; II; III; Notes; 2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte's Reden ; Introduction. Life and Thought. Life's Resistance to Thought; Some Milestones in the History of this Question; Why Life's Resistance to Thought Is a Central Question in Fichte's Addresses; Thought, Life, and Action in Fichte's Addresses; "One's real mind and disposition."
How Thought Can Be Just "a Thought Belonging to a Foreign Life" and "Merely Possible Thought"Wirkliches Denken and gedachtes Denken ; Thought and Language ("Living Language" and "Dead Language"). Concluding Remarks; Notes; 3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Fichte's View of Language; Fichte's Three Principles; The Contradiction between Fichte's View of Language and His Three Principles; What This Contradiction Entails; Notes; 4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Critique of Religion
Kantian Critique of ReligionCritical Religion; Religion as Critical; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National Identity ; Notes; 6. Fichte's Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung ; I; II; III; Notes; 7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte's Addresses ; The Chief German Contradiction; Language and Nation in Relation to the Chief Contradiction; The Philosophical Background of the Henological Religion within the Addresses as Root of the Contradiction; Notes
8. Fichte's Imagined Community and the Problem of Stability Fichte and the Problem of Stability; Fichte's Imagined Community; Freedom as an Existential Commitment: A Reconciliation; Notes; References; 9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte's Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation ; Introduction: Overcoming Myth and Embarrassment; Mutual Recognition as the Necessary Condition for the Existence of Right: Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right as the Basis for His Later Political Philosophy
The State as the Necessary Condition for the Protection of Property and RightThe Role of Recognition and the Security of Property and Right in Fichte's Closed Commercial State; Philosophy and the Prophetic Tone of the Addresses to the German Nation; Between Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism: Fichte's Ambivalent Politics; The Three Moments of Recognition: Constitutive/Regulative, Political, Cultural/Linguistic; Particularism Guided by a Cosmopolitan Logic: Some Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Issues ; Notes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814. Reden an die deutsche Nation.
SUBJECT Reden an die deutsche Nation (Fichte, Johann Gottlieb) fast
Subject Education and state -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
National characteristics, German -- History -- 19th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Education and state
National characteristics, German
Politics and government
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1806-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054627
Subject Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Breazeale, Daniel, editor
Rockmore, Tom, 1942- editor.
LC no. 2016030221
ISBN 9781438462561
1438462565
1438462557
9781438462554