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  • Abbreviations ; Introduction. On Situating and Interpreting Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Notes; 1. From Autonomy to Automata? Fichte on Formal and Material Freedom and Moral Cultivation ; I; II; III; Notes; 2. Gedachtes Denken/Wirkliches Denken A Strictly Philosophical Problem in Fichte's Reden ; Introduction. Life and Thought. Life's Resistance to Thought; Some Milestones in the History of this Question; Why Life's Resistance to Thought Is a Central Question in Fichte's Addresses; Thought, Life, and Action in Fichte's Addresses; "One's real mind and disposition."
  • How Thought Can Be Just "a Thought Belonging to a Foreign Life" and "Merely Possible Thought"Wirkliches Denken and gedachtes Denken ; Thought and Language ("Living Language" and "Dead Language"). Concluding Remarks; Notes; 3. Linguistic Expression in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Fichte's View of Language; Fichte's Three Principles; The Contradiction between Fichte's View of Language and His Three Principles; What This Contradiction Entails; Notes; 4. Critique of Religion and Critical Religion in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation ; Critique of Religion.
  • Kantian Critique of ReligionCritical Religion; Religion as Critical; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Autonomy, Moral Education, and the Carving of a National Identity ; Notes; 6. Fichte's Nationalist Rhetoric and the Humanistic Project of Bildung ; I; II; III; Notes; 7. The Ontological and Epistemological Background of German Nationalism in Fichte's Addresses ; The Chief German Contradiction; Language and Nation in Relation to the Chief Contradiction; The Philosophical Background of the Henological Religion within the Addresses as Root of the Contradiction; Notes.
  • 8. Fichte's Imagined Community and the Problem of Stability Fichte and the Problem of Stability; Fichte's Imagined Community; Freedom as an Existential Commitment: A Reconciliation; Notes; References; 9. Rights, Recognition, Nationalism, and Fichte's Ambivalent Politics: An Attempt at a Charitable Reading of the Addresses to the German Nation ; Introduction: Overcoming Myth and Embarrassment; Mutual Recognition as the Necessary Condition for the Existence of Right: Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right as the Basis for His Later Political Philosophy.
  • The State as the Necessary Condition for the Protection of Property and RightThe Role of Recognition and the Security of Property and Right in Fichte's Closed Commercial State; Philosophy and the Prophetic Tone of the Addresses to the German Nation; Between Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism: Fichte's Ambivalent Politics; The Three Moments of Recognition: Constitutive/Regulative, Political, Cultural/Linguistic; Particularism Guided by a Cosmopolitan Logic: Some Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Issues ; Notes.