Fichte / Church / Schön Contribution to the Correction of the Public's Judgments on the French Revolution

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8218-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fichte, J. G.

Church, Jeffrey

Schön, Anna Marisa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Church, Jeffrey

Schön, Anna Marisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
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
Introduction

1. Does a People Actually Have the Right to Change Its Constitution?

2. Sketch of the Further Course of the Examination

3. Is the Right to Change the Constitution Alienable through the Contract of All with All?

4. On Privileged Classes in General, in Relation to the Right of Changing the State

5. On the Aristocracy in Particular, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change

6. On the Church, in Relation to the Right of Constitutional Change

Afterword
Appendix One: Correspondence
Appendix Two: Review by Friedrich von Gentz
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Church is Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. His books include Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche. Anna Marisa Schön is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston.