The texts presented in this volume constitute the lectures that were held as part of the Free Course "The Idea of Europe from Kant to Hegel". They follow a chronological thread, beginning with the theme of "perpetual peace," taken up by Kant in 1795 in the context of the European war against revolutionary France. This is followed by a meditation on the idea of Revolution, its origin, and the transformations it underwent during the period under study, which is followed by a historical investigation, contrasting the projects for European unity from the revolutionary and imperial points of view (showing, in particular, Napoleon's subsequent reconstruction of his conquest intentions). The following texts seek to detect the sense of the echoes of the French Revolution in thinkers such as Burke, Paine, Rehberg, Kant, and Fichte. Hegel is given a prominent place in this collection. For Hegel, philosophy has the task of thinking about the European Revolution, that is, of understanding its origins, its meaning, and its prospects.
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