Economic Romanticism

Monetary Nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Muller

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23213865
AutoresRichard T Gray (0000-0002-2885-0483, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen36
Número4
Páginas535-557
Fecha de publicación2003-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/ecs.2003.0044
OpenAlexW2011990946
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas16

This essay reflects on the history of German monetary nationalism by examining texts written by two Romantic thinkers, Fichte's Der geschlossene Handelsstaat (1800) and Müller's Versuche einer neuen Theorie des Geldes (1816), that articulate theories of German nationhood based on the community-building power of monetary symbols. It argues that these theories of economic union preceded Romantic conceptions of German nationhood grounded in ethno-linguistic or racial criteria, and that in this respect these Romantic ideas anticipate the economic unification of Germany that has characterized its history since 1945.

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