Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right

Georg Cavallar

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This book argues that Kant’s theory of international relations should be interpreted as an attempt to apply the principles of reason to history in general, and in particular to political conditions of the late eighteenth century. It demonstrates how Kant attempts to mediate between a priori theory and practice, and how this works in the field of international law and international relations. Kant appreciates how the precepts of theory have to be tested against the facts, before the theory is enriched to deal with the complexities of their application. In the central chapters of this book, the starting points are apparent contradictions in Kant’s writings; assuming that Kant is a systematic and profound thinker, Cavallar seeks to use these contradictions to discover Kant’s ‘deep structure’, a dynamic and evolutionary theory that tries to anticipate a world where the idea of international justice might be more fully realized.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mediating Between Pure Reason and Practice
The Contemporary Context: Kant’s Judgement on Frederick’s Enlightened Absolutism
Kantian International Right: Background and Paradigm Shift
Judging War
Does Republicanism Promote Peace?
Non-intervention, Humanitarian Intervention and Failed States
Conflicts in Kant’s Account of the Right to Go to War
The Unjust Enemy
Kant’s Society of Nations: Free Federation or World Republic?
Moving Beyond Nationalism: Constitutional
Patriotism and Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm in Kant
Conclusion: A Theory for our Times
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie politique
• Political
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy

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• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786835536
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Kant and the Theory and Practice of International Right

Georg Cavallar

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Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Mediating Between Pure Reason and Practice

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3 4 5

6 7 8

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The Contemporary Context: Kant’s Judgement 13 on Frederick’s Enlightened Absolutism Kantian International Right: Background and 46 Paradigm Shift Judging War 65 Does Republicanism Promote Peace? 80 Non-intervention, Humanitarian Intervention 99 and Failed States Conflicts in Kant’s Account of the Right to Go to War 113 The Unjust Enemy 123 Kant’s Society of Nations: Free Federation or 141 World Republic? Moving Beyond Nationalism: Constitutional 161 Patriotism and Cosmopolitan Enthusiasm in Kant’s Philosophy

Conclusion: A Theory for our Times Notes Bibliography Index

177 187 247 253

Preface

The first edition of this book was published in 1999, when I lived in the United States for the second time. It grew out of a protracted preoccupation with what might be called ‘Kant’s international rela- tions thinking’. I am indebted to Sharon Anderson-Gold, Herta Nagl-Docekal, Volker Gerhardt, John Christian Laursen, Gerhard Luf, Hans-Dieter Klein, Ingeborg Maus, August Reinisch, Alexan- der Somek, Howard Williams and many others who have helped me to come to terms with Kant’s complex philosophy. Back then, work on this book was made possible by two generous scholar- ships financed by theFonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Vienna. I finished this book when I was visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside. After having received all this assistance, anything I have still managed to get wrong is my sole responsibility. I want to thank Sarah Lewis at UWP, and again Howard Williams for help- ing me to get this second edition published. The book is dedicated to my wife Angelika and our three thriving children, who still can- not understand why on earth people write books and do not get a lot of money for them. All references to Kant’s works are in accordance with the Akademie-Edition, vol. 1–29 ofKant’s Gesammelte Schriften, Ber- lin/Leipzig, 1902–. This edition is referred to by Roman (volume) and Arabic (subvolume, pages and lines) numbers. Thus, XXVII, 2, 1, 673, 38–674, 2 refers to volume 27, subvolume 2, 1, page 673, line 38 to page 674, line 2. TheEnglish translations are from Hans Reiss (ed.),Kant, Political Writings(Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 1991). For the parts not covered by Reiss’s edition, I use theCambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992–). References to theCri- tique of Pure Reasonfollow the customary pagination of the first (A) and second (B) edition. Vienna and St Gilgen Summer 2019

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgement is due for the following: A different version of ‘Kant’s Judgement on Frederick’s enlightened absolutism’ was first published inHistory of Political Thought, 14 (1993), 103–32. Chapter 3 was first published in German as ‘Kants Urteilen über den Krieg’, in Hoke Robinson (ed.),Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress, Memphis 1995Mar- (Milwaukee, quette University Press, 1995), vol. 2/1, 81–90. Parts of chapter 4 are taken fromTheories of Dynamic Cosmopolitanism in Mod- ern European History(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 116–24 and pp. 137–48. Parts of that text were first printed in ‘Kantian Per- spectives on Democratic Peace: Alternatives to Doyle’,Review of International Studies, 27 (2001), 229–48; reprint: Arthur Ripstein (ed.),Immanuel Kant (Hants: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 535–54. ‘Kant, intervention, and the “failed state”’ appeared inKantian Review, 2‘Conflicts in Kant’s account of the(December 1998), 99–106. right to go to war’ was first published inThe European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 2 (1997), 991–9, and ‘Kant’s society of nations: free federation or world republic?’ inJournal of the His- tory of Philosophy, 32 (1994), 461–82. The section ‘On the use and abuse of Kant in international relations theory: a critique of Susan Meld Shell’ at the end of chapter 7 was originally published as ‘Commentary on Susan Meld Shell, “Kant on Just War and ‘Unjust Enemies’”: Reflections on a ‘Pleonasm’“,Kantian Review, 11 (2006), 117–24. Chapter 9 was published under the title ‘Jürgen Habermas and Manfred Riedel: Moving beyond Nationalism’, in Howard Williams, Colin Wight, and Norbert Kapferer (eds),Polit- ical Thought and German Reunification(Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 2000), pp. 177–93. I am grateful to all publishers for their generous permission to reprint the texts.