Kant, Immanuel, ed. Pauline Kleingeld: Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History (Rethinking the Western Tradition).(Book review)

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Kant, Immanuel, ed. Pauline Kleingeld

Toward Perpetual Peace and Other

Writings on Politics, Peace, and History

(Rethinking the Western Tradition)

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

304 pp., $45.00 cloth, $17.00 paper

ISBN 0-3001-1794-9 cloth

ISBN 0-3001-1070-7 paper

Publication Date: November 2006

This volume provides new translations by David Colclasure of works by Kant (172418...

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