Immanuel Kant influenced a large and productive group of political philosophers in the 1790s. This volume argues that they brought out more fully the egalitarian principles of Kantian republicanism.

Autorentext

Reidar Maliks is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. Among his publications are Kant's Politics in Context (2014) and Kant and the French Revolution (2022).

Elisabeth Theresia Widmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the London School of Economics. She has published several articles on left-Kantian thinkers, and a monograph titled Left-Kantianism in the Marburg School (2023).

Inhalt

Introduction Reidar Maliks and Elisabeth Theresia Widmer 1. Johann Adam Bergk on Democracy Reidar Maliks 2. Kant and Schlegel on Majority Rule Mike Gregory 3. Fichte's Incomplete Republicanism J. Colin Bradley 4. Saul Ascher's Misgivings About Kant's Political Theology Wojciech Kozyra 5. Karolina on Confining Women to Domestic Labor and Private Reason Olga Lenczewska 6. Ewald and Tieftrunk on Volksaufklärung Feroz Mehmood Shah 7. Government or Citizens? Kant and Johann Adam Bergk on Constitutional Patriotism Takuya Saito 8. Johann Benjamin Erhard's Critical Account of State Legitimacy Elisabeth Theresia Widmer 9. Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk on How Best to Prevent and Heal Revolutions Valentin Braekman 10. Dictatorship and Insurrection in Schlegel's Republicanism Fiorella Tomassini 11. Fichte contra Rehberg on the Origin of the Aristocracy and Feudal Inequality Mike Kryluk