Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814.

Contributor:

Church, Jeffrey.

Schön, Anna Marisa.

Series:

SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Germany--Philosophy--History.

Political science.

Legitimacy of governments.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, German.

France.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Philosophy.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

First translation into English of Fichte's major work on the French Revolution.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1. The French Revolution in Germany

2. The Contribution and Social Contract Theory

3. The Contribution and Fichte's Development

Translators' Note

Chronology

Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution

Book One On Judging the Legitimacy of a Revolution

Preface

I.

II.

III.

IV.

Chapter One Does a People Actually Have the Right to Change Its Constitution?

Chapter Two Sketch of the Further Course of the Examination

Chapter Three Is the Right to Change the Constitution Alienable through the Contract of All with All?

Chapter Four On Privileged Classes in General, in Relation to the Right of Changing the State

Chapter Five On the Aristocracy in Particular, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change

Chapter Six On the Church, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change

Afterword

Appendix One Correspondence

Appendix Two Review by Friedrich von Gentz

German-English Glossary

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781438482187

1438482183

OCLC:

1244257290