The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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What it is about
Fichte's 'popular' writings: those meant for the public rather than for philosophers — The Vocation of Man, The Nature of the Scholar, the Addresses to the German Nation.
Context and history
The Addresses are the ones that need placing. Fichte delivered them in Berlin in the winter of 1807-08, with the city under Napoleon's occupation, and what he proposes in them is a reform of education to remake a defeated people. A century later German nationalism, and then Nazism, claimed them as a precedent. They are best read knowing both things: the situation in which they were spoken, and what has been made of them since.
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3° For Prospectus indicating the character and purpose of the Catholic Series, and for List of Books already published, see Catalogue at the end of this Work. VOL. I. THE POPULAR WORKS JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE. £ranslate& front tfje (Bferman, A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, WILLIAM SMITH. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN CHAPMAN, 142, STEAND. M.D.CCC.XLVIII. THE favourable reception which has been given to the English Translation of FICHTE'S popular writings having rendered necessary a New Edition of some of the earlier publications, the Translator has availed himself of the op portunity thus afforded him of issuing in a collective form the writings which he had previously sent forth in separate volumes. He indulges the hope of thereby giving a more fixed and permanent outward shape to works which have nothing transitory or perishable in their internal character, and perchance of adding something to the well-earned fame of a truly Great Man. The present volume contains an enlarged edition of the MEMOIR OF FICHTE, the LECTURES on the VOCATION OF THE SCHOLAR and on the NATURE OF THE SCHOLAR, and THE VOCATION OF MAN. The last-mentioned work is now pub lished for the first time in its present shape. The second volume will contain the CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRESENT AGE, and the DOCTRINE OF RELIGION. W. SMITH. EDINBURGH, August 1848. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST. I. MEMOIR OF FICIITE, page 1 " ~" THE VOCATION OF THE SCHOLAR, . .169 III. THE NATURE OF THE SCHOLAR, . . . 239 IY. THE VOCATION OF MAN, .... 365 OF JOHAtfN GOTTLIEB FICHTE BY WILLIAM SMITH. MEMOIR OP JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE. AT the time of the great religious division, when Germany wa§ torn by internal factions and ravaged by foreign armies, — when for thirty years the torch of devastation never ceased to blaze, nor the groan of misery to ascend on high, — a skirmish took place near the village of Rammenau, in Upper Lusatia, between some Swedish troops and a party of the Catholic army. A s
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