How to continue Kant’s Perpetual Peace with Addams’ Newer Ideals of Peace

How to continue Kant’s Perpetual Peace with Addams’ Newer Ideals of Peace

This article examines some arguments in favor of taking peace as a political obligation that can be found in one of the most important founders of the pacifist movement, Jane Addams. The main focus is on her 1907 book Newer Ideals of Peace, which has often been read as idealistic and outdated, and above all, as more of an activist’s manifesto than a serious contribution to either political phil...

Kant's Perpetual Peace and World Government

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

World Peace in One Hour
Peace is Profitable
Roadmap to Peace

To transitory peace ●

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...