Reden an die deutsche Nation
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addresses_to_the_German_Nation Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reden_an_die_deutsche_Nation Release date is 2015-02-22
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"Reden an die deutsche Nation" by Johann Gottlieb Fichte is a philosophical work published in 1808, based on lectures delivered during French occupation of Berlin. Fichte attempts to awaken German national feeling and advocate for a unified German nation-state. He argues Germans possess a "pure language" enabling profound thought, and calls for economic self-sufficiency, universal conscription, and a national education system designed to shape individual will. The work promotes essentialist ideas about German identity, though its baroque language and metaphysical concepts made it difficult to understand. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
National characteristics, German Germany -- Politics and government -- 1806-1815 Education and state -- Germany