Immanuel Kant's View On War

In 1798, Immanuel Kant published his pamphlet entitled Der Streit der Fakultäten (The Conflict of the Faculties), in which he urged an end to the subordination of the lower faculties in the universities to the higher faculties. Kant states:

"So this antagonism, that is, this conflict of two parties united in their striving toward one and the same final end (concordia discors, discordia concors), is not a war, that is, not a dispute arising from conflicting final aims regarding the Mine and Thine of learning. And since, like the political Mine and Thine, this consists in freedom and property, with freedom necessarily preceding property as its condition, any right granted to the higher faculty entails permission for the lower faculty

They specify the methodological contributions that resulted, contextualizing academic practices of literary and political theory and cultural studies within national institutional histories. They might inform practice if not quite transform the world, and problematize the result in light of the demands of globalized capitalism and the hegemonization of the political field as a war on terrorism in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11,

There is an interface between the theory and cultural studies because these approaches do not constitute a discourse or debate. Although terms and texts reappear within the different approaches, their meanings and weight are varied and contested. Differently, the work at the interface of the theory and cultural studies is not a blending of the strengths and insights of two fields into something