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Book SynopsisThis book offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings centred on two main themes: property and virtue. It relates Fichte's social and political philosophy to the ideas of such thinkers as Locke and Kant, as well as to the radical phrase of the French Revolution.
Trade Review"James’ thoughtful and well-researched book offers a unified approach to such diverse and seemingly unrelated political writings of Fichte as the 1796-1797 Foundations of Natural Right (FNR), the much neglected 1800 The Closed Commercial State (CCS) and the 1808 Addresses to the German Nation (AGN)...." – KienHow Goh, Independent Scholar, Philosophy in Review
"....the importance of German idealism and Fichte's influence upon the creation of the German nation make the book interesting to readers who otherwise read more general or political history..." --Wouter-Jan Oosten, Sociotext Foundation, The Netherlands, Canadian Journal of History
Table of Contents1. Fichte's theory of property; 2. Applying the concept of right: Fichte and Babeuf; 3. Fichte's reappraisal of Kant's theory of cosmopolitan right; 4. The relation of right to morality in Fichte's Jena theory of the state and society; 5. The role of virtue in the Addresses to the German Nation.
