{"id":4650,"date":"2015-02-01T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:07:49","slug":"german-nationalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/01\/german-nationalism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"German Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalism is defined as &#8221; devotion and loyalty to one&#8217;s own country&#8221; (http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/nationalism) and it was the main focus in Johann Gottlieb Fichte&#8217;s piece <em>To the German Nation. <\/em>Fichte was a German philosopher who lived from 1762 to 1814 and developed many of his ideals from analyzing Kant and his writings. (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Gottlieb_Fichte). He aimed for the ears of the common German man\/woman to rally together and show unity and pride in their respective nation. Once a supporter of France and the Revolution, Fichte changed his stance after Napoleon overrode Germany. Fichte wrote, &#8220;Those who speak the same language are joined to each other and have the power of continuing to make themselves understood more and more clearly.&#8221; (Fichte) He spoke against &#8220;the deceptive vision of a universal monarchy&#8221; and attempted to convince the German population to dig deeper and embody the ideals of their nation\u00a0as a whole. Nationalism is an extremely important factor in the rise of any nation and began to escalate in this time period for the Germans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalism is defined as &#8221; devotion and loyalty to one&#8217;s own country&#8221; (http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/nationalism) and it was the main focus in Johann Gottlieb Fichte&#8217;s piece To the German Nation. Fichte was a German philosopher who lived from 1762 to 1814 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/02\/01\/german-nationalism-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110560],"tags":[94123,2802,51879],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist107-archive","tag-fichte","tag-germany","tag-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}