The socio-political context of Emmanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace Project

To understand that the socio-political context in which Kant developed his "Perpetual Peace" was marked by the existence a plurality of forms of sovereignty and social property regimes can lead to a more rigorous understanding of the nature of his republicanism. In turn, it allows us to identify certain blind spots in Kant's theorization of nascent modernity. After having pointed to the chrono-fetishism of contemporary democratic peace theory, this article proposes a reinterpretation of the Kantian project based on the examination of the sociopolitical of the late 18th century. The conclusion outlines a tentative theorization of an alternative conceptualization of the democratic peace that takes into account the uneven and combined development of capitalism during the 19th century.