
Closed Commercial State
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte''s Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant''s political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau''s constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant''s social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky arg...
This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte''s Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant''s political thought. Isaac Nakhimovsky shows how Fichte reformulated Rousseau''s constitutional politics and radicalized the economic implications of Kant''s social contract theory with his defense of the right to work. Nakhimovsky arg...