Legal Aspects of State Reform: Kantian Motives in the Philosophy of Sergey Hessen
This article compares the ideological foundations of the political projects of Sergey Hessen (Gessen) and Immanuel Kant as projects of political development and transformation, i.e. gradual reform. The starting point is the project of “rule-of-law socialism” which Hessen saw as a synthesis of the new liberalism and new socialism of his time. The main question is overt or covert reception of Kant’s ideas in this project. Kant and Hessen share historical optimism and reject utopias, but the core ...
