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Introduction -The Kantian Project of International Law: Engagements with Jürgen Habermas' The Divided West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Achilles Skordas  and
Peer Zumbansen

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After Habermas' Der gespaltene Westen was published in Germany in 2004 to wide acclaim, Polity Press published an English language edition of the book in 2006. The Divided West contains Habermas' recent writings on international law and, particularly, his landmark essay on “The Kantian Project and the Divided West – Does the Constitutionalization of International Law Still Have a Chance?” The essay constitutes the most elaborate contribution by Habermas on the challenges facing the international legal order today. While carefully unfolding his inquiry into the dynamics of international law within the current state of transatlantic relations and the role played by the United States in this and the global context, his essay has an objective beyond this. Habermas revisits Kant's concept of cosmopolitan citizenship and a world legal order, as elaborated in the essays “To Eternal Peace” and “Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent.” Habermas explores the chances of a revival Kant's thesis in a (post)-Kosovo and (post)-lraq Era of International Relations. Habermas' essay makes a number of poignant and provocative observations that have already been taken up in an increasingly global discussion.

Type
Research Article
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 1: Special issue: The Kantian Project of International Law , 01 January 2009 , pp. 1 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

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