Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Tom Rockmore is Humanities Chair Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, China. Both have authored, edited, and translated many books. Together, they are the coeditors of Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, also published by SUNY Press.

"…wide-ranging, thoughtful, scholarly, and necessary: a welcome and much needed reconsideration of a purportedly 'toxic' text." — Journal of the History of Philosophy

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Daniel Breazeale1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral CultivationDaniel Breazeale2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken: A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte’s Reden Mario Jorge de Carvalho3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Sıla Ozkara4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Benjamin D. Crowe5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National IdentityC. Jeffery Kinlaw6. Fichte’s Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung Marina F. Bykova7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte’s Addresses Rainer Schafer8. Fichte’s Imagined Community and the Problem of StabilityGabriel Gottlieb9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte’s Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation Arnold L. Farr10. How to Change the World: Cultural Critique and the Historical Sublime in the Addresses to the German Nation Michael Steinberg11. Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation and the Philosopher as GuideTom Rockmore12. World War I, the Two Germanies, and Fichte’s Addresses Anthony N. Perovich13. Fault Lines in Fichte’s RedenGeorge J. SeidelList of ContributorsIndex

Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Tom Rockmore is Humanities Chair Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, China. Both have authored, edited, and translated many books. Together, they are the coeditors of Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, also published by SUNY Press.

"…wide-ranging, thoughtful, scholarly, and necessary: a welcome and much needed reconsideration of a purportedly 'toxic' text." — Journal of the History of Philosophy

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Daniel Breazeale1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral CultivationDaniel Breazeale2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken: A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte’s Reden Mario Jorge de Carvalho3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Sıla Ozkara4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Benjamin D. Crowe5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National IdentityC. Jeffery Kinlaw6. Fichte’s Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung Marina F. Bykova7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte’s Addresses Rainer Schafer8. Fichte’s Imagined Community and the Problem of StabilityGabriel Gottlieb9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte’s Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation Arnold L. Farr10. How to Change the World: Cultural Critique and the Historical Sublime in the Addresses to the German Nation Michael Steinberg11. Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation and the Philosopher as GuideTom Rockmore12. World War I, the Two Germanies, and Fichte’s Addresses Anthony N. Perovich13. Fault Lines in Fichte’s RedenGeorge J. SeidelList of ContributorsIndex

Daniel Breazeale is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Tom Rockmore is Humanities Chair Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, China. Both have authored, edited, and translated many books. Together, they are the coeditors of Fichte's Vocation of Man: New Interpretive and Critical Essays, also published by SUNY Press.

"…wide-ranging, thoughtful, scholarly, and necessary: a welcome and much needed reconsideration of a purportedly 'toxic' text." — Journal of the History of Philosophy

• AbbreviationsIntroduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Daniel Breazeale1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral CultivationDaniel Breazeale2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken: A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte’s Reden Mario Jorge de Carvalho3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Sıla Ozkara4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation Benjamin D. Crowe5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National IdentityC. Jeffery Kinlaw6. Fichte’s Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung Marina F. Bykova7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte’s Addresses Rainer Schafer8. Fichte’s Imagined Community and the Problem of StabilityGabriel Gottlieb9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte’s Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation Arnold L. Farr10. How to Change the World: Cultural Critique and the Historical Sublime in the Addresses to the German Nation Michael Steinberg11. Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation and the Philosopher as GuideTom Rockmore12. World War I, the Two Germanies, and Fichte’s Addresses Anthony N. Perovich13. Fault Lines in Fichte’s RedenGeorge J. SeidelList of ContributorsIndex