'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.