Abstract

Kant has been slotted into various and divergent political traditions. Hermann Cohen thought him “the true and real originator of German socialism.” He has been cast as a communitarian, and, more recently, Rawls and others have associated him with liberalism. In 1915 Dewey and, independently Santayana, made him responsible for German militarism and conquest ideology, and in 1942 Dewey placed him in the lineage of Nazism.