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Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation (1807/08) Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) was a distinguished post-Kantian philosopher and notorious intellectual radical who was stripped of his Jena professorship in 1798 after allegations of atheism and Jacobinism were raised against him. Finding refuge in Prussia, he was appointed
After leaving Jena, Fichte's idealism became more metaphysical and religious in orientation, and his practical philosophy became more nationalistic, as exhibited in his inspirational Addresses to the German Nation (1808), reflecting his strong commitment to the cause of resisting the Napoleonic invasion.
9 feb 2011 · Education and state, National characteristics, German Publisher Chicago and London, The Open court publishing company Collection prscr; unclibraries; americana Contributor University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Language English
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation, ed. Gregory Moore (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2008), xlv + 202 pp., £15.99, ISBN 978 0 521 448734. It is a widely held view among the commentators of Fichte's social and politi cal writings that his Addresses to the German Nation (1807-8) indicate a sig
27 lug 2014 · These addresses should lead you first of all, and with you the whole nation, to a clear perception of the remedy which I have proposed for the preservation of the German nation. Such a remedy follows from the nature of the age as well as of the German national characteristics, and must in turn influence the age and the moulding of those national characteristics.
But at the same time, this ‘we’ is never completely separated from what is essentially German, the potentially universal community of the ‘we’ is only made possible by the secret German idiom, even if it extends beyond the borders of the German nation and language – beyond what is empirically German.
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 ...
