Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History

by Immanuel Kant; Edited and with an Introduction by Pauline Kleingeld; Translated

• ISBN13: 9780300117943
• ISBN10: 0300117949
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and political philosophy, superbly translated and accompanied by stimulating essays. Pauline Kleingeld provides a lucid introduction to the main themes of the volume, and three essays by distinguished contributors follow: Jeremy Waldron on Kant's theory of the state; Michael W. Doyle on the implications of Kant's political theory for his theory of international relations; and Allen W. Wood on Kant's philosophical approach to history and its current relevance.

Author Biography

Pauline Kleingeld is professor of philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands. David L. Colclasure is assistant professor and head of the German Studies Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Michael W. Doyle is Harold Brown Professor at Columbia University in the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Law School. Jeremy Waldron is University Professor and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy, Columbia University. Allen W. Wood is Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

A brief sketch of Kant's life and works
Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan perspective	p. 3
An answer to the question : what is enlightenment?	p. 17
Conjectural beginning of human history	p. 24
Critique of judgment, section 83-section 84	p. 37
On the common saying : this may be true in theory, but it does not hold in practice, parts 2 and 3	p. 44
Toward perpetual peace : a philosophical sketch	p. 67
Metaphysics of morals, doctrine of rights, section 43-section 62	p. 110
The contest of the faculties, part 2	p. 150
Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view, part 2, section E	p. 164
Kant's theory of the state	p. 179
Kant and liberal internationalism	p. 201
Kant's philosophy of history	p. 243
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