wbg academic Immanuel Kants Entwurf >Zum Ewigen Frieden<: Eine Theorie der Politik

Kant's draft ›To eternal peace‹ is one of the most influential texts on the problem of war and its avoidance. On the writing published in 1795, the peace movement of the 19th Century as well as the founders of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Volker Gerhardt's interpretation makes clear the persistent topicality of Kant's design: it is not merely a utopian program or humanistic appeal to the goodwill and reason of the politically responsible, but his concept of peace aims at a general international law that allows conflict resolution through treaties and controls. The book touches on questions of world political order that are now more topical and urgent than ever before. For the present reissue, the volume has been completely reviewed and updated, making the groundbreaking interpretation of this significant writing Kant's accessible once again.