Kant and Future Politics

It seems clear that humanity will have a future only if some significant changes in our current practices are adopted. Whether we are talking about consumption, corporate responsibility, the use of social media, our relation to the environment and its crises leading to migration and displacement, social justice, national and international conflict resolution, political institutions or our own views of ourselves as historical and moral agents, we need to reconceptualise our practices and find concrete ways of applying such renewed perspectives to our world. Kant’s philosophy is particularly apposite in this context, not only given its significant legacy, including numerous recent texts which approach such difficult issues against the background of Kant’s thought; in addition, Kant’s texts on their own continue to yield new useful insights for our theoretical attempts to tackle currently urgent problems, and recent exegetical efforts are evidence of the continued relevance of his work. This section is designed to include panels and papers from academics from various relevant disciplines, who critically acknowledge the significance of Kant’s philosophy and the Kantian legacy, and who mobilise their normative potential for the articulation of novel ways of thinking about our predicaments and our future. Panels and papers on meta-theoretical, normative and applied issue are invited for participation. Several panels and papers have already been tentatively suggested by members of the Kantian Standing Group, including work on climate change, information disorder, the status of multinational business corporations, autonomy, democratisation and the challenge of artificial intelligence. Panels and papers on other relevant topics will be equally welcome. Bibliography (included below is a very selective list of recent work relevant for this section’s theme – it is meant as an indicative list and many other significant publications could not be included here) * Ertl, W. (2020) The Guarantee of Perpetual Peace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Loriaux, S. (2020) Kant and Global Distributive Justice. CambridgeÖ Cambridge University Press. * Reinhardt, K. (2019) Migration und Weltbürgerrecht: Zur Aktualität eines Theoriestücks der politischen Philosophie Kants. Frieburg-München: Verlag Karl Alber. * Ripstein, A. (2021) Kant and the Law of War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Schönecker, D. and Kim, H. – eds (2022) Kant and Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: De Gruyter.