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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 relations 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, Alexander 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 scholarships financed by the Fonds 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 helping me to get this second edition published. The book is dedicated to my wife Angelika and our three thriving children, who still cannot 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 of Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften, Berlin/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. The English translations are from Hans Reiss (ed.), Kant, Political Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). For the parts not covered by Reiss’s edition, I use the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992–). References to the Critique of Pure Reason follow the customary pagination of the first (A) and second (B) edition.

Vienna and St Gilgen

Summer 2019