In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation have also been interpreted by many as a vision of a cosmopolitan alternative to nationalism. This new edition of the Addresses is designed to make Fichte's arguments more accessible to English-speaking readers.
Author Biography
Isaac Nakhimovsky is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Bela Kapossy is Professor of Modern History, University of Lausanne. Keith Tribe is an independent scholar.
