This article examines Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Closed Commercial State (1800) through the lens of its critical reviews, showing how these functioned less as neutral scholarly judgments than as polemical interventions within a political battlefield. Indeed, the work – redefining property as a right to productive activity and proposing economic closure as the basis for distributive justice – sparked intense debate between 1800 and 1803. In conclusion, is it shown that these many divergent voices illustrate how the Closed Commercial State became a conceptual battlefield where competing visions of democracy and political economy at the dawn of modernity were negotiated and contested.
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Titolo del capitolo
Democratic Thresholds. Freedom, Trade and Politics in Fichte’s Closed Commercial State, through its critics
Autori
Silvestre Gristina
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1.14
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Sottotitolo del libro
Volume 2
Curatori
Pasquale Terracciano, Francesco Valerio Tommasi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
282
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0999-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0998-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0999-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-1060-7
Collana
Knowledge and its Histories
ISSN della collana
3035-5974
e-ISSN della collana
3035-5923