In additional to various minor texts, including some literary ones, this volume mainly consists of works dealing with the three different themes: In the ›Geschloßnen Handelsstaat‹ Fichte constructs a socio-economic model of a human community organized according to the principles of the Wissenschaftslehre; the ›Sonnenklare Bericht‹ is an attempt to make the Wissenschaftslehre popularly accessible, whereas the ›Antwortschreiben an Reinhold‹ is a contribution to a strictly professional debate; finally, in ›Friedrich Nicolai's Leben und sonderbare Meinungen‹, Fichte makes a polemical ›contribution to the literary history of the preceding century and to the pedagogy of the coming one‹.