A Weapon of Mass Distraction: Kant and the «mendacious publicity» of British Government

The developments of the two formulations of publicity, issued in Perpetual Peace, are deeply indebted to the critical analysis of the British government Kant conducts during the same period. Since the Glorious Revolution and hroughout the eighteenth century, British monarchy had been able to deceive the people, with the support of a corrupt parliament, spreading a mendacious narrative of itself and of the fundamental laws of the state. By testifying how political power can convert publicity into a weapon of mass distraction, Kant settles a realistic way to implement republicanism: genuine parliamentary publicity, where the representatives act as the guarantors of the people, to avoid war and revolution, the two most treacherous fractures between politics and right