Must the State Have Continuity? Irruption and Change in Fichte’s Political Thought

The aim of this article is to correctly situate the irruptive and abrupt political change within Fichte’s political philosophy. Fichte supports the political and cultural continuity of a community, but he must synthesize it with the irruptive character of some changes that entail a new worldview, integrating it into his philosophy despite the apparent incompatibility. I will show how the notion of applied philosophy allows Fichte to maintain this disruptive character in some of his works, along with the revolutionary pathos that underlies his philosophy of religion and the importance of certain concepts characterized by novelty, irruption and immediacy in his theoretical philosophy.