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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
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
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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 Discussion of Language in the Addresses as a Theory of Language
Fichte’s Theory 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 Religion
Critical 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
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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 Right
The 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
10. How to Change the World: Cultural Critique and the Historical Sublime in the Addresses to the German Nation
Notes
11. Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation and the Philosopher as Guide
On the Evolution of Fichte’s Position
Spirit and Politics in the Addresses
On the Argument in the Addresses
Fichte and Nationalism
Germanness in Question
Conclusion
Notes
12. World War I, the Two Germanies, and Fichte’s Addresses
Notes
13. Fault Lines in Fichte’s Reden
Summary
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
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