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Author Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814, author.

Title Contribution to the correction of the public's judgments on the French revolution J.G. Fichte ; edited, translated and with an introduction by Jeffrey Church and Anna Marisa Schön
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Suny series in contemporary continental philosophy
SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
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 -- Introduction -- 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
Summary "First translation into English of Fichte's major work on the French Revolution"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Political science -- Germany -- Philosophy -- History
Legitimacy of governments.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
Historiography
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Legitimacy of governments
Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy
Public opinion, German
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Foreign public opinion, German
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Philosophy
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051332
Subject France
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Church, Jeffrey, 1978- editor, translator, writer of introduction.
Schön, Anna Marisa, editor, translator, writer of introduction
ISBN 9781438482187
1438482183
Other Titles Beitrag zur Berichtigung der Urteile des Publicums über die französische Revolution. English