Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Gesamtausgabe / Reihe I: Werke. Band 10: Werke 1808–1812

In 1964, the first volume of series I (works) was published. With the publication of volume 10, the editors have now completed the edition of Fichte‘s works. Volume 10 contains publications of the last five years of Fichte‘s life. The famous ›Addresses to the German Nation‹ that Fichte delivered publicly in Berlin in 1807/8 succeed the ›Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters‹ and the ›Anweisung zum seeligen Leben‹ and thus form the last part of the trilogy which marks Fichte‘s change of direction towards a Philosophy of History. Following Pestalozzi, Fichte appeals for a new education of the German people in order to achieve an intellectual reformation. At the same time, this work is shaped by Fichte‘s intention to participate – within the bounds of his possibilities – in the course of political events. Fichte connected Germany‘s loss of political autonomy due to Napoleon‘s dominance with an imminent intellectual decline in Germany, and was therefore urged to take action. He realised his right and duty to speak out. Additionally, this volume contains Fichte‘s adaptations of Petrarca and Camoenes, his elaborated final lecture of 1810 ›Wissenschaftslehre in ihrem allgemeinen Umrisse‹; the speech ›Ueber die einzig mögliche Störung der akademischen Freiheit‹ (which Fichte delivered when he took up his office as headmaster at Berlin University in 1811), as well as his two summer term lectures of 1812 ›Über die Bestimmung des Gelehrten‹. The volume is completed by 14 reviews from 1788.