Kant’s Politics in Context

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ID8098698
AuthorsReidar Maliks (corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages208
Publication date2014-09-11
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueKant's Politics in Context (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199645152.001.0001
OpenAlexW628190060
Open LibraryOL28529914M
ISBN9780199645152
LanguageEN
Citations received38

This book analyses Kant's political philosophy in the light of public controversies between conservative and radical observers of the French Revolution. The author argues that Kant's theory of equal freedom explains his condemnation of both paternalistic government and radical democracy, and his defense of republican constitutionalism. That Kant idealized the public sphere is well known, but that he intentionally developed his own philosophy in public discourse has not been fully appreciated. Paying attention to these debates in German philosophy during the 1790s, and participants such as Fichte, Erhard, Bergk, Rehberg, and Gentz, can help us to understand Kant's political philosophy. The first comprehensive account of Kant's politics in context, this book provides a fresh perspective on both modern political philosophy at a foundational moment and on Kant's central political concepts, including freedom, rights, citizenship, revolution, and war

Citizenship · Constitutionalism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Epistemology · German · German philosophy · Paternalism · Philosophy education · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public philosophy · Public sphere · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · War, Ethics, and Justification · immanuel Kant (1724-1804) · Philosophy · Political and social views · History · Law

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