Call for Papers Kant Çalışmaları Journal

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Kant and Politics”
Deadline for submission: January 30, 2026

Guest Editor: Selda Salman

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The first quarter of the twenty-first century has already made clear—through wars, authoritarianism, crises, and alienation—how far we remain from realizing Kant’s vision of the future. Yet this distance does not erase Kant’s conviction that humanity is moving toward a better world. In a time of renewed crisis, recalling and re-examining Kant and his ethico-political philosophy emerges as a responsibility. If philosophy has a task in the twenty-first century, it may well be to prevent the forgetting of fundamental principles and values.

With this in mind, the Journal of Kant Çalışmaları is preparing a special issue on “Kant and Politics.” We aim to reopen discussion on the possibility of peace, the meaning of human dignity, the significance of equality, the value of freedom, morality, justice, and the necessity of grounding society in ethical principles. We also seek to reflect on how to sustain hope in the face of today’s seemingly hopeless global political landscape. In this context, the issue “Kant and Politics” invites contributions that not only examine the foundations of Kant’s political philosophy but also engage with Kant’s ethico-political thought from today’s perspective and in light of the future.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

·       The possibility of peace

·       Thinking about today’s world through Kant’s political philosophy

·       Migration policies and Kantian politics

·       Human dignity and Kant

·       Kant’s aesthetics and politics

·       Kant and Enlightenment

·       Kant and revolutions (the American Revolution, the French Revolutions, etc.)

·       Kant and law

·       Kant and political values

·       Kant and social movements

·       Kant in dialogue with Hobbes, Hegel, Marx, Smith, Arendt, Adorno, Habermas, Rawls, Foucault, and other philosophers

·       Kant, identities, and politics

·       Kant’s progressive philosophy of history

·       Kantian justice

·       The possibility of cosmopolitanism

·       Crises and Kant (climate crisis, economic crises, etc.)

·       The concept of the future from a political perspective

·       Political tradition and Kant

·       Politics and morality/ethics

·       The crisis of politics: wars and Kant’s understanding of war

Types of submissions accepted

·       Original research articles

·       Book reviews of works published within the last two years

·       Interviews

How to submit:
Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted according to the guidelines available at here. Please make sure to indicate “Special Issue: Kant and Politics” in the subject line when submitting.

All submissions will be evaluated through a double-blind peer review process, with at least two referee reports. The journal of Kant Studies is published in print and requires no publication fee.