Troxler, Ignaz Paul Vital
Die Idee des Staates und das Wesen der Volksvertretung. Issued in Schweizerisches Museum, Estes Heft, page 13-75.
Ueber die Freiheit der Presse in allgemeiner hinsicht und in besonderer Beziehung auf die Schweizer. Issued in Schweizerisches Museum, Zweites Heft, page 234-295.
Published by Heinrich Remigius Sauerländer, Aarau [Switzerland], 1816
8vo. 2 Hefte bound in 1 volume. Complete. Contemporary half calf with handwritten label to spine. Marbled boards. Some wear to binding.
Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (August 17, 1780 – March 6, 1866) was a Swiss physician, politician, and philosopher.
Exceedingly rare papers by Troxler on the idea of the State and Freedom of the Press. Published in the newly formed quarterly, the Swiss Museum, they are the starting point for all Troxler’s further thinking about politics and the state. Both reflect his political liberalism and the right of all individuals ‘to be informed’ (Art. 7 of the newly formed Swiss Constitution) and express a political way of thinking which anticipates the totalitarian radicalism of the 1830s and a ‘unity’ of people and spirit.
Troxler studied in Jena and Göttingen. Among his teachers were Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling.
