Essays on Kant's political philosophy
Howard Williams (Editor, Writer of introduction)
As a political philosopher, Kant has until recently been overshadowed by his compatriots Hegel and Marx. With his strong defense of the rights of the person and his deep insight into the strengths and weaknesses of modern society Kant, possibly more than any other political thinker, anticipated the problems of the late twentieth century. Kant's political philosophy wedded as it is to rights, reform, and gradual progress, is emerging from the shadows cast by Hegelian and Marxist thinking about the state. In this volume, thirteen distinguished contributors from the United States, Canada, Britain, and Germany cast light on important aspects of Kant's liberal thinking. Key topics covered include Kant's liberal reformism, his relation with Hegel, his attitude to women, the use of reason, revolution, Kant's optimism, and his moral and legal rigorism
xix, 331 pages ; 23 cm
9780226899091, 9780708311257, 0226899098, 0708311253
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Kant's optimism in his social and political theory / Howard Williams
Law as idea of reason / Ernest J. Weinrib
Reason and politics in the Kantian enterprise / Onora O'Neill
Kant's political cosmology: Freedom and desire in the 'remarks' concerning "Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime" / Susan Shell
'Even a nation of devils needs the state': The dilemma of natural justice / Otfried Höffe
Kant's concept of the state / Wolfgang Kersting
Kant: 'An honest but narrow-minded bourgeois'? / Susan Mendus
Kant's theory of punishment / Samuel Fleischacker
Contract, consent and exploitation: Kantian themes / Roger Scruton
Kant's moral and political rigorism / R.F. Atkinson
Kant, revolutions and history / Peter P. Nicholson
Defending Hegel from Kant / Steven B. Smith
Hannah Arendt on Kant, truth and politics / Patrick Riley