Download or read book Fichte's "Closed Commercial State" and the Problem of Perpetual Peace written by Isaac Stone Nakhimovsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alternative peace strategy he presented in the Closed Commercial State was predicated on Sieyés's efforts to engineer a French-led restructuring of the European balance of power. It drew on widespread eighteenth-century claims that asserting state control over the monetary system would create an unprecedented opportunity to tame intensifying interstate competition, relieve mounting class conflict, and bring about the moral transformation of modern economic relations. In making this kind of proposal, as Fichte's contemporaries realized, the Closed Commercial State extended Fichte's rights theory into a critique of the discipline of political economy. From this perspective, Fichte's Closed Commercial State emerges as a pivotal attempt to reclaim the core of seventeenth-century jurisprudence from its eighteenth-century interpreters, and make it available to emerging nineteenth-century discussions of a world of competitively industrializing nation states.