Fichtes 'Geschlossener Handelsstaat'

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'Fichte's Closed Commercial State' Fichte's 'Closed Commercial State' happens to be one of the most provocative writings of a philosopher who claimed to advocate nothing as much as freedom but whose key political option seems to be a state controlling all economic activities of his citizens. In this book experts from five countries show what Fichte's main concerns were: the question of how to safeguard the rule of law, the question of avoiding commercial war, the question of ending colonialism etc. The book wants to invite to a non-prejudiced new reading of Fichte.

Autorenportrait

Thomas Sören Hoffmann has been teaching philosophy at the University of Bonn, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and also as invited professor in Mendoza (Argentina) and Linz (Austria). Since 2009, he holds the chair of practical philosophy at the FernUniversität in Hagen. Hoffmann has published widely on Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, but also in philosophy of law, philosophy of economics, and bioethics, e.g. 'Die absolute Form. Modalität, Individualität und das Prinzip der Philosophie nach Kant und Hegel' (Berlin / New York 1991), 'Philosophische Physiologie' (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2003), 'Wirtschaftsphilosophie' (Wiesbaden 2009), 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. A Propaedeutic' (Leiden / Boston 2015).

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