[PDF] The Closed Commercial State eBook

Author : J. G. Fichte
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438440227

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Appearing for the first time in a complete English translation, The Closed Commercial State represents the most sustained attempt of J. G. Fichte, the famed author of The Doctrine of Science, to apply idealistic philosophy to political economy. In the accompanying interpretive essay, Anthony Curtis Adler challenges the conventional scholarly view of The Closed Commercial State as a curious footnote to Fichte's thought. The Closed Commercial State, which Fichte himself regarded as his "best, most thought-through work," not only attests to a life-long interest in economics, but is of critical importance to his entire philosophical project. Carefully unpacking the philosophical nuances of Fichte's argument and its complex relationship to other texts in his oeuvre, Adler argues that The Closed Commercial State presents an understanding of the nature of history, and the relation of history to politics, that differs significantly from the teleological notions of history advanced by Schelling and later Hegel. This critical scholarly edition includes a German-English glossary, annotations, and page references to both major German editions.

Author : Isaac Nakhimovsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400838754

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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.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781461907787

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Critical scholarly edition of J. G. Fichte's Closed Commercial State

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439126267

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The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Author : Isaac Stone Nakhimovsky
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 2008
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The alternative peace strategy he presented in the Closed Commercial State was predicated on Sieyés's efforts to engineer a French-led restructuring of the European balance of power. It drew on widespread eighteenth-century claims that asserting state control over the monetary system would create an unprecedented opportunity to tame intensifying interstate competition, relieve mounting class conflict, and bring about the moral transformation of modern economic relations. In making this kind of proposal, as Fichte's contemporaries realized, the Closed Commercial State extended Fichte's rights theory into a critique of the discipline of political economy. From this perspective, Fichte's Closed Commercial State emerges as a pivotal attempt to reclaim the core of seventeenth-century jurisprudence from its eighteenth-century interpreters, and make it available to emerging nineteenth-century discussions of a world of competitively industrializing nation states.

Author : American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Author : Anthony De Jasay
Publisher : Collected Papers of Anthony de
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780865971714

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The State is a brilliant analysis of some of the fundamental issues of modern political thought from the perspective, not of individuals or subjects, but of the state itself. The author poses the query, "What would you do if you were the state?" The state usually is understood as an instrument, not a personality, and it is presumed to exist so that people can achieve their common ends. However, Jasay asks, what if we suppose the state to have a will and ends of its own? To answer these questions, the author traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into an "agile seducer of democratic majorities, to the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is in many countries today ... Is the rational next step a totalitarian enhancement of its power?" The State presents what has been termed "a disturbingly logical 'agenda' for the state in pursuit of its 'self-fulfillment.'"--Inside jacket flap.

Author : J. G. Fichte
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438482183

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The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England is well documented among Anglophone scholars; however, the debate over the Revolution in Germany is much less well known. Fichte's Contribution played an important role in this debate. Presented here for the first time in English, Fichte's work provides a distinctive synthesis of Locke's "possessive individualism," Rousseau's general will, and Kant's moral philosophy. This eclectic blend results in an unusual rights theory that at times veers close to a form of anarchism. Written in 1792–93, just before Fichte moved to Jena to develop his philosophical system in a series of works—above all the Wissenschaftslehre of 1794—the Contribution provides invaluable insight into Fichte's early development. In addition, Fichte's work predates much of Kant's political philosophy, and can shed light on the rich dialogue in German political thought in the 1790s.

Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.