Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano
When it first appeared in 1795, Kant’s famous essay Zum ewigen Frieden was either taken for a fervent pacifist appeal or interpreted as a manifesto of revolu- tionary propaganda in support of republican France. From the very beginning, where the ambiguous introductory motto is prosaically exemplifie...
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| description | When it first appeared in 1795, Kant’s famous essay Zum ewigen Frieden was either taken for a fervent pacifist appeal or interpreted as a manifesto of revolu- tionary propaganda in support of republican France. From the very beginning, where the ambiguous introductory motto is prosaically exemplified by the gloomy sign on a Dutch inn (‘At the Perpetual Peace’), the essay actually seems more like a warning than an auspice. Influenced by G.W. Leibniz, for whom a “perpetual peace is only conceivable among the dead”, and in veiled disagreement with the French Jacobins, who advocated a peaceful thousand-year reign after a war to destroy all enemies, Kant in fact expresses his fear that the longed-for “perpetual peace” may be transformed into the “eternal peace” of the cemetery, and in a vast mass grave for humanity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc2ab0c5c00849629b6f79c26ca9899e2022-12-22T03:08:37ZengFirenze University PressDiciottesimo Secolo2531-41652017-05-01210.13128/ds-2062017161Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantianoMarco DuichinWhen it first appeared in 1795, Kant’s famous essay Zum ewigen Frieden was either taken for a fervent pacifist appeal or interpreted as a manifesto of revolu- tionary propaganda in support of republican France. From the very beginning, where the ambiguous introductory motto is prosaically exemplified by the gloomy sign on a Dutch inn (‘At the Perpetual Peace’), the essay actually seems more like a warning than an auspice. Influenced by G.W. Leibniz, for whom a “perpetual peace is only conceivable among the dead”, and in veiled disagreement with the French Jacobins, who advocated a peaceful thousand-year reign after a war to destroy all enemies, Kant in fact expresses his fear that the longed-for “perpetual peace” may be transformed into the “eternal peace” of the cemetery, and in a vast mass grave for humanity.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/309 |
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| title | Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano |
| title_full | Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano |
| title_fullStr | Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano |
| title_short | Alla pace del cimitero: la recezione settecentesca di «Zum ewigen Frieden» e le fonti nascoste di un <i>topos</i> kantiano |
| title_sort | alla pace del cimitero la recezione settecentesca di zum ewigen frieden e le fonti nascoste di un i topos i kantiano |
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