Revolution Without Revolution?
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Constitution, Sovereignty, Sovereign, People.
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In this essay, I analyze Kant’s views on the permissibility of revolutions as a means of political change. I hold that in the same way the developments of the French Revolution were somehow contained in the ambiguity of the 1791 Constitution, Kant’s hesitations concerning the continuity of a juridical order reflect his own inability to clearly specify who the sovereign is. This difficulty might be due to the fact that Kant did not develop a sound theory of constituent power.Downloads
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2018-12-15
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Kervégan J.-F. (2018). Revolution Without Revolution?. Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy, 7(13), 29-44. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/LTDL/article/view/76811
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