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This is the first translation into English of the only surviving set of student notes from Kant's course on political philosophy and the notes and drafts he wrote whilst formulating his ideas on the importance of freedom, the social contract, international peace, property rights, the French Revolution, and other topics.
List of contents
General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; General introduction; Translators' remarks; Reflections on the Philosophy of Right; Natural Right course lecture notes by Feyerabend; Drafts for published works; Drafts for Theory and Practice; Drafts for Toward Perpetual Peace; Drafts for the Metaphysics of Morals; Drafts for Conflict of the Faculties; Notes; Glossary; Topical and chronological concordance; Index.
About the author
Frederick Rauscher is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of Naturalism and Realism in Kant's Ethics (forthcoming), co-translator with Curtis Bowman and Paul Guyer of Kant's Notes and Fragments, edited by Paul Guyer (2005), and editor with Daniel Omar Perez of Kant in Brazil (2012).Kenneth R. Westphal is Professor of Philosophy at Boðaziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul. He has published widely on German philosophy, and on Kant's philosophy in particular. His publications include Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism (2004) and How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law (2016).
Summary
This is the first translation into English of the only surviving set of student notes from Kant's course on political philosophy and the notes and drafts he wrote whilst formulating his ideas on the importance of freedom, the social contract, international peace, property rights, the French Revolution, and other topics.
