%0 Journal Article %T Kant and his time ¡ª the essay Toward Perpetual Peace against the background of the French Revolution and ensuing wars %A Krause J. %J Kantovskij Sbornik %D 2013 %I Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University %X This article considers the events and ideas that served as a background to the creation of the essay Towards Perpetual Peace, as well as the earliest reviews of it. The author pays special attention to the objections voiced by Kant¡¯s student Friedrich Gentz who turned from the advocate of his teacher¡¯s ideas into his opponent. The conclusion offers an attempt to envisage the philosophers¡¯ reactions to the current state of international politics. %K Kant %K Gentz %K perpetual peace %K democratic war %K republic %K French Revolutionary Wars %K international organizations %U http://journals.kantiana.ru/upload/iblock/05e/D£¿£¿£¿D¡ă£¿£¿D¡¤D¦̀%20D£¿._33-45.pdf