E.S. Burt

Oct 2, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Jonathan Rée |Jacques Derrida |E.S. Burt |Peggy Kamuf

Immanuel Kant​ was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned out well: the Dutch had been lucky with theirs in 1579, for example, and so had the British in 1688.