# Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought

- id: zuruckforderung-der-denkfreiheit
- original title: Zurückforderung der Denkfreiheit von den Fürsten Europens
- author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- language: German
- composed: 1793
- field: philosophy

Fichte's anonymous 1793 speech demanding back the freedom of thought from the princes of Europe, quoting Rousseau that every honest man must acknowledge what he has written.

## The chain

- **2026** German -> English, translation [attested]
  Adnan Abbasi (editor), New Delhi
  A complete crossing of the 1793 pamphlet. An English version of the speech appeared in Schmidt's 1996 Enlightenment anthology; this one was made independently and entire, preface and all.
  Evidence: Thothica 2026; James Schmidt (ed.) 1996

## Worth knowing

The pamphlet appeared anonymously at the height of the censorship panic after the French Revolution. English readers had access to a translation in James Schmidt's 1996 Enlightenment anthology; the complete crossing carried in this library was made in New Delhi in 2026.

## Sources

- James Schmidt (ed.) (1996). What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions. University of California Press.
- Thothica (2026). Falsafa: the library and librarian (falsafa.ai). falsafa.ai.

Confidence grades: attested (named in the medieval record or settled in scholarship), probable (standard view with real uncertainty), disputed (scholars disagree).