Kant's political theory
Subtitle: interpretations and applications
By: edited by Elisabeth Ellis
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780271053776
Subjects: Political and social views
Description: "A collection of essays examining Immanuel Kant's lectures and minor writings as well as his political essays. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Kant's political thought from a position of engagement with modern political and philosophical questions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kant and the social contract tradition / Onora O'Neill; title: Kant and the circumstances of justice / Arthur Ripstein; title: Is Kant's rechtslehre a "comprehensive liberalism"? / Thomas W. Pogge; title: Realizing external freedom: the Kantian argument for a world state / Louis-Philippe Hodgson; title: The progress of absolutism in Kant's essay "what is enlightenment?" / Robert S. Taylor; title: Unsocial sociability: perpetual antagonism in Kant's political thought / Michaele Ferguson; title: Kant's political thought in the Prussian enlightenment / Ian Hunter; title: Kant on education / Mika LaVaque-Manty; title: Kant, freedom of the press, and book piracy / John Christian Laursen.