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He contrasts Rousseau's liberty-centered nationalism with Fichte's language-centered nationalism, where language binds people to the past and makes race, nation, and blood worth fighting for.
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He contrasts Rousseau's liberty-centered nationalism with Fichte's language-centered nationalism, where language binds people to the past and makes race, nation, and blood worth fighting for.
Fichte supplies a language-centered German nationalism: shared German language manifests the people's Geist and can reanimate scattered individuals into a transformed national body.
"This is a Johan Fette. Who is considered the father of Germany. The father of German nationalism. And his argument is that it is..."
"decides, because he's a huge fan of Shakespeare, that this shared heritage will be one of language. Okay? We will speak one language together,..."
"Let them be bleached and dried out by many centuries of storms, deluges, and blazing sun. The animating breath of the spiritual world has..."
"...of European history for the next hundred years. This is Johann Fichte. He is a student of Kant. He is a major philosopher in..."
A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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