This Guide examines Fichte's main political concepts including morality, the summons, social contract, freedom, the body and human rights.

Introduction Gabriel Gottlieb; 1. Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and its relation to Kant Angelica Nuzzo; 2. Fichte's separation of right from morality Frederick Neuhouser; 3. Fichte's independence thesis James A. Clarke; 4. Deduction of the summons and the existence of other rational beings Allen W. Wood; 5. Fichte's Kabbalistic realism: summons as ¿im¿um Paul Franks; 6. Fichte's developmental view of self-consciousness Gabriel Gottlieb; 7. The body as site of action and intersubjectivity in Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right John Russon; 8. Fichte's transcendental deduction of private property Wayne Martin; 9. Fichte on personal freedom and the freedom of others David James; 10. Freedom, coercion, and the relation of right Michael Nance; 11. Fichte's organic unification: recognition and the self-overcoming of social contract theory Dean Moyar; 12. Fichte and human rights Jean-Christophe Merle.