Date: 2017
Type: Article
Rethinking Kant as a public intellectual
European journal of political theory, 2017, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 100–108
MØLLER, Sofie Christine, Rethinking Kant as a public intellectual, European journal of political theory, 2017, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 100–108
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In Kant’s Politics in Context, Reidar Maliks offers a compelling account of Kant’s political philosophy as part of a public debate on rights, citizenship, and revolution in the wake of the French Revolution. Maliks argues that Kant’s political thought was developed as a moderate middle ground between radical and conservative political interpretations of his moral philosophy. The book’s central thesis is that the key to understanding Kant’s legal and political thought lies in the public debate among Kant’s followers and that in this debate we find the political challenges which Kant’s political philosophy is designed to solve. Kant’s Politics in Context raises crucial questions about how to understand political thinkers of the past and is proof that our understanding of the past will remain fragmented if we limit our studies to the great men of the established canon.
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Published on January 1, 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/51247
Full-text via DOI: 10.1177/1474885115611518
ISBN: 9780199645152
ISSN: 1474-8851; 1741-2730
Publisher: Sage
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