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Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation

Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation

Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation

Gregory Moore, University of St Andrews, Scotland
February 2009
Paperback
9780521448734

    This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena in 1806, is widely regarded as a founding document of German nationalism, celebrated and reviled in equal measure. Fichte's account of the distinctiveness of the German people and his belief in the native superiority of its culture helped to shape German national identity throughout the nineteenth century and beyond. With an extensive introduction that puts Fichte's argument in its intellectual and historical context, this edition brings an important and seminal work to a modern readership. All of the usual series features are provided, including notes for further reading, chronology, and brief biographies of key individuals.

    • Selection of key writings, with introduction, notes and chronology aimed at students
    • Fichte is the second most important 19th-century German political theorist after Marx
    • Moore is a leading scholar in the field

    Product details

    January 2009
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9780511460111
    0 pages
    0kg
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • Foreword
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
    • Chronology
    • Notes on the text and translation
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • Abbreviations
    • Addresses to the German Nation
    • Notes
    • Glossary.
      Editor
    • Gregory Moore , University of St Andrews, Scotland

      Gregory Moore is lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He previously taught at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, and was Junior Research fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is Secretary of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society.