2009
Cairn
Anne-Marie Saint-Gille, « « De la guerre éternelle à la grande paix ». Philosophie de la paix et paneuropéisme », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.rg39tx
Richard de Coudenhove-Kalergi’s works perfectly illustrate how complex the link between the thought of a united Europe and the thought of peace can be. The present article tries to establish that, even though he substitutes the idea of ‘perpetual peace’ for the more relative idea of a “general/wide peace”, Richard de Coudenhove-Kalergi doesn’t diverge as much as he pretends to from the limited optimism which Kant demonstrates in Zum Ewigen Frieden. He then analyses the arguments underlying the political criticism directed at the pacifist movements between 1918 and 1939 and shows how realpolitik conceives its Paneuropean-program as a peace-program.