The Revolutionary ‘Deception’: Kant on the Illusion of a Politics of Happiness
Could an ideal of happiness ever serve as a legitimate principle of public legislation? According to Kant, grounding public legislation on…
Could an ideal of happiness ever serve as a legitimate principle of public legislation? According to Kant, grounding public legislation on…
This essay traces the influence of Carl Schmitt on an interpretative tendency found in a number of contemporary readings of Kant’s…
Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: “What is real?”, “What is everything made of?”…
This thesis makes two claims: first, that conflict is constitutive of human agency, and second, that this understanding of agency in terms of…
Analysis | As a Venezuelan, I was always told that we were a rich country, but one where politicians looted the natural resources which…
In this paper I argue that the political thought of Kant and Hegel contains a critique of revolution, based on their interpretation of the French case…
Analysis | In February the LSE Department of Government hosted a two-day mini-course as part of a three-year Leverhulme Trust funded…