Kant : Political Writings

by Immanuel Kant , Edited by H. S. Reiss , Translated by H. B. Nisbet

• ISBN13: 9780521391856
• ISBN10: 0521391857
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition two important texts illustrating Kant's view of history are included for the first time, his reviews of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind and Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History, as well as the essay What is Orientation in Thinking?. In addition to a general introduction assessing Kant's political thought in terms of his fundamental principles of politics, this edition also contains such useful student aids as notes on the texts, a comprehensive bibliogaphy and a new postscript, looking at some of the principal issues in Kantian scholarship that have arisen since the first edition.

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

List of abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan purpose

3. An answer to the question: 'what is enlightenment?'

4. On the common saying: 'this may be true in theory, but it does not apply in practice'

5. Perpetual peace: a philosophical sketch

6. The metaphysics of morals

7. The contest of faculties

8. Appendix

9. Reviews of Herder's ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind

10. Conjectures on the beginning of human history

11. Introduction to what is orientation in thinking?

12. What is orientation in thinking?

Notes to the text

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of subjects.