Addresses to the German Nation

The Addresses to the German Nation (German: Reden an die deutsche Nation, 1806) is a political literature book by German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte that advocates German nationalism in reaction to the occupation and subjugation of German territories by Napoleon's French Empire following the Battle of Jena. Fichte evoked a sense of German distinctiveness in language, tradition, and literature that composed the identity of a nation (people). According to Bertrand Russell in his History of Western Philosophy, Fichte's work laid the theoretical foundations of German nationalism.

See also

• German nationalism
• Nationalism
• Napoleonic Wars
• Unification of Germany
• What Is a Nation?

References

Bibliography

• James, David (2011). Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy: Property and Virtue. Cambridge, England, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00155-8.
• Jusdanis, Gregory (2001). The Necessary Nation. Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-08902-7.

Further reading

• Gregory Moore (ed.), Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

External links

• The full text of Addresses to the German Nation at Wikisource
• Reden an die deutsche Nation at gutenberg.de
• Reden an die deutsche Nation at epoche-napoleon.net

1. German nationalism
2. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
3. Volk
4. Address
5. Holy Roman Empire
6. German Romanticism
7. Prussian education system
8. Pan-Germanism
9. Special address by the British monarch
10. Völkisch nationalism
11. German philosophy
12. The Republicans (Germany)
13. German People's Party
14. Alternative for Germany
15. The Concept of the Political
16. Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
17. Romantic nationalism
18. State Socialism (Germany)
19. Julien Benda
20. Conservatism in Germany