Zwischen Utopie und Dystopie: das Problem der Volkssouveränität bei Kant und Rousseau

• Welsch, Martin ^[1]
  1. [1] Heidelberg University

     Heidelberg University

     Stadtkreis Heidelberg, Alemania

     
• Localización: Archiv für Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie, ARSP, ISSN 0001-2343, Vol. 109, Nº 2, 2023, págs. 217-230
• Idioma: alemán
• DOI: 10.25162/arsp-2023-0007
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Between utopia and dystopia: the problem of popular sovereignty in Kant and Rousseau
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  • Utopia and dystopia are brought together by Kant and Rousseau to the point of their indistinguishability: Dystopia is the reverse side of utopia, utopia that of dystopia. The essay traces this structure in Rousseau’s œuvre – in Julie, the Discourse on Inequality and the Contrat Social – in order to uncover how Kant carried it forward in the Staatsrecht of his late Rechtslehre with regard to modern representative democracy and the problem of popular sovereignty.