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Zusatztext "As Nakhimovsky has brilliantly demonstrated, there is much for contemporary readers to be inspired by in Fichte's basic intuition that policies of public finance might be used not merely to regulate local economies and promote world peace but also to realize a robust and demanding conception of justice." ---Frederick Neuhouser, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Informationen zum Autor Isaac Nakhimovsky is a junior research fellow at Emmanuel College! University of Cambridge. Klappentext "This clear and carefully written book does an excellent job of explaining the importance and historical context of an interesting work by a major nineteenth-century philosopher. The author's knowledge of the primary text! Fichte's other texts! and the relevant secondary literature is impeccable. This book will greatly interest intellectual historians and historians of philosophy who specialize in nineteenth-century European thought."--Frederick Neuhouser! Barnard College! Columbia University"Nakhimovsky has written an important book on the political economy of nineteenth-century Europe. The value of this lucid book is twofold: it introduces Fichte's work and his theory of political economy to an English-speaking readership! and it also provides an overview of the multidimensional debates on the state! national! and international economies and their relation to the betterment of humanity that determined the course of German idealism."--John K. Noyes! University of Toronto Zusammenfassung This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State , a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau's constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant's social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky argues that Fichte's sequel to Rousseau and Kant's writings on perpetual peace represents a pivotal moment in the intellectual history of the pacification of the West. Fichte claimed that Europe could not transform itself into a peaceful federation of constitutional republics unless economic life could be disentangled from the competitive dynamics of relations between states, and he asserted that this disentanglement required transitioning to a planned and largely self-sufficient national economy, made possible by a radical monetary policy. Fichte's ideas have resurfaced with nearly every crisis of globalization from the Napoleonic wars to the present, and his book remains a uniquely systematic and complete discussion of what John Maynard Keynes later termed "national self-sufficiency." Fichte's provocative contribution to the social contract tradition reminds us, Nakhimovsky concludes, that the combination of a liberal theory of the state with an open economy and international system is a much more contingent and precarious outcome than many recent theorists have tended to assume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Perpetual Peace and Fichte?s Theory of the State 15 Herder?s Letter 15 Perpetual Peace and Power Politics 17 The Citizen of Fr?jus and the Philosopher of K?nigsberg 22 The Citizen of Fr?jus! the Philosopher of K?nigsberg! and the Professor at Jena 35 Toward The Closed Commercial State 61 Chapter 2: Commerce and the European Commonwealth in 1800 63 Gentz?s Review 63 Perpetual Peace and The Closed Commercial State 65 Fichte?s History of Commerce 74 Prussia and the Anglo-French Debate of 1800 84 Fichte?s Contribution to the Debate 98 Chapter 3: R epublicanization in Theory and Practice 103 Fichte?s Proposal 103 Fichte?s Implementation Strategy 106 The Closed Commercial State and the Political Economy of Prussian Reform 115 Fichte?s Moral Challenge Continued 126 Chapter 4: Fichte?s Polit...
